Matching user specs for multiple distros

[Jim Bonnet]

Collins wrote:

>I keep all my home stuff in a /home partition.  Since most of my
>partitions are versions of gentoo, the userid's match up and I am able
>to use /home without any complaints.  Now I beginning to experiment
>again with other distros, and I can't mount and use /home
>successfully, because the user numbers don't match.
>
>For example, I created a LRs-linux 3.0 system (automated version of
>LFS).  I've toyed with /etc/group and deleted and readded the collins
>user several times, but I can't get LRs-linux to use the same user
>number as I was on gentoo, so of course my collins user on LRs can't
>use my /home files.
>
>I'm sure I will encounter the same problem with Redhat which I am
>downloading now.
>
>Can anyone help?
>
>TIA,
>  
>
your uid and gid needs to be the same across distros..

probably each distro creates its own uid for your shared user...

jim