Matching user specs for multiple distros

[Matthew Carpenter]

I'm notquite sure what LRs are but all you have to do is make sure each
user has the same user number and each group has the same group number
(set these manually in /etc/passwd and /etc/group)

Not a big deal.  I do this all the time.  This is one of the benefits of
running NIS/YP, because the UIDs and GUIDs are stored in the same
location so they're always the same


On Sun, 20 Oct 2002 17:22:43 +0000
Collins <erichey2 at attbi.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 20 Oct 2002 15:20:22 -0700 Jim Bonnet <jimbo at sysdump.com>
> wrote:
> > 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...
> > 
> 
> That much I know, but I can't seem to convice LRs to use the same
> values.
> 
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