Mark Knecht wrote: > Instead of using useradd to create user accounts can I just edit >/etc/passwd & /etc/group and place identical entries in the Gentoo >side as the FC2 side and then have both distros use the same home >directories? (Without Gentoo actually creating them?) I'd then run >passwd for each user and hopefully folks could log in. Or is there >more to creating a new user account? > > >
That should work ok. Just run 'pwconv' and 'grpconv' after you get done editing, so that the /etc/shadow and /etc/grpshadow are updated correctly. These are the 'secure' password files. You'll want to do that after editing but before running passwd. -Richard -- [email protected] mailing list
