On Sun, 2004-03-28 at 13:52, LinuxLingam wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 13:19, Yashpal Nagar wrote:
> > LL Can you try this hack;
> >
> > You have LL user in both systems, redhat8 & fedora, username is
> > undoubtly same but the uid & gids will be different.
> > So what i recommend you, you make sure both the systems have same uid &
> > gid edit /etc/password & /etc/group of both systems
>
> [snip]
>
> did not work, xdm accepts name and password, goes into some
> restrospection, ponders over something, and throws back the log in
> screen without any message. a couple of times of this, and i logged in
> as root, changed the IDs back to the original ones, and it worked.
maybe an extension of this, what if yu create a new user "LLpartII" in
RedHat 8.0, and specify the UID and GID yourself. then chown all files
in /home/LL to LLpartII. then in Fedora, create same user with the same
UID and GID. then see if yu are able to access those?
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