On 8 Jan 2002 at 22:03, USM Bish wrote:

> 
>   Filenames are not written with the names of owner and  group,
>   rather the uid:gid numbers. Under deb user bish  had  uid.gid
>   of bish.bish. Under Slack bish.users. Since most distros have
>   their own conventions of writing uid.gid, the  numbers  would
>   vary. If you do this bit manually, and keep the uid.gid under
>   a common convention, YES, it is possible. Most people use one
>   tool or the other to create/ delete users .... even "adduser"
>   is a tool ...

Secondly configuration files placed. If /home is shared between two distros, 
then configuration files will be confusing for apps. if there versions are 
different. Say .xfigrc of RHL may not be parsable by xfig in debian.

Atul Chitnis wrote this in one of his articles in PCQ. I remember that very 
clearly because I burnt my hands between RHL and slack as X refused to start( 
or something severe like that. Don't remember exactly...)

 Shridhar

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