Re: installing multuple distributions
Glynn Clements <[email protected]>
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Pol wrote: > Probably i should make sure that /etc/passwd and /etc/groups are the same in > all distributions. > Do you think it would work? Your user accounts should have the same UID/GID if you are planning on using a common /home partition. However, you shoudn't modify the system UIDs/GIDs. Bear in mind that the filesystem stores numeric UID/GID, not user/group names. If you change the UIDs/GIDs in the passwd and group files, files and directories will have the wrong owner. Some configuration files may also use numeric UIDs/GIDs. -- Glynn Clements <[email protected]> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html