On Monday, January 23, 2012 09:33:21 AM Mark Wendt did opine: [...] > > That's the rub, this box is pclos, first uid,gid is 500. > > Nothing says that UID/GID has to be used. Change the UIDs/GIDs so they > match. Since pclos is lower than the Ubuntu UID/GID schema, it won't > hurt anything on the pclos box to change your user there to match the > Ubuntu UID/GID. You can also do this:
Except I lose sudo rights and must use su -. pclos would rather sudo went away anyway. > edit file /etc/login.defs with your favourite editor and find and > replace this line : > > UID_MIN 500 > GID_MIN 500 > > The 1000 as the UID/GID seems completely arbitrary, and Ubuntu seems to > be the only one doing it. Convention has it that UIDs/GIDs <= 100 are > for system use. Anything above is non-system-priv'd. > > > Cheers, Gene > > Mark The last time I tried to 'fix' that on the ubuntu box, I lost my sudo rights and had to re-install. I presume there should be a precise order to do it in, but I haven't deciphered it in 2 tries yet. Thanks Mark. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> Windows is the only solitaire game that requires 16 MB of RAM. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
