Changing my UID and GID

[Mike Reinehr]

Michael,

You need to edit the /etc/passwd file on one or both distributions, such that 
your user id & group id are the same in both distributions; make sure that 
you are included as a group member of the appropriate group in 
both /etc/group files; and, change the owner & group membership of all of the 
files in /home/goober to the appropriate user & group id's.

That part is easy. My concern is what will be the effect of having different 
software versions between the two distributions. I've done this here but have 
been careful to keep both systems upgraded in sync with one another. For 
example, I wouldn't want to be using Firebird 0.7 in one system & Firefox 0.8 
in the other. Your profile would surely be screwed.

Mike

On Tuesday 24 February 2004 12:03 pm, Michael Hipp wrote:
> I may need to change my UID and GID so I can share /home between two
> different distros. Will this procedure do the trick?
>
> 1. Edit /etc/passwd and change the UID there
> 2. Edit /etc/group and change the GID there
> 3. Do 'chown -R newuid:newgid /home/goober'
>
> Is there anything more to do? Any problems this will present?
>
> Thanks,
> Michael
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