On 4/16/05, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 >
Richard, Thanks. I'll look into those commands a bit more and get back to you. Cheers, Mark -- [email protected] mailing list
