On Monday, January 23, 2012 02:12:11 PM Mark Wendt did opine: > On 01/23/2012 09:40 AM, gene heskett wrote: > > 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. > > Nothing to change on the pclos box, only the Ubuntu box. > > >> 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. > > As long as you use the group <name> and not the GID for additional > groups, ie admin:x:120:wendt (this is in the group file, and also the > group that is given higher privs in the /etc/sudoers file) you shouldn't > have a problem. Here's a page that outlines all the steps you need to > do: > > <http://www.jfdesignnet.com/?p=2083>
Thanks Mark, but I think NFS is going to solve my problems in that regard. After 14 years of failure, I made it work, with a lot of help from this list, this morning. Sweet! Shame on the man page writers for abstracting the requirements till nobody but a 40 year experienced unix guru could translate that gibberish into something usable. 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> The hatred of relatives is the most violent. -- Tacitus (c.55 - c.117) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
