On Tuesday 14 March 2006 09:00, Nikhil Marathe wrote: > I got an idea. Keep all my files in /data which is a shared partition then > since my username is same on all distros, recursive chmod it. And then > every distro has a small /home of about 100megs only for app preferences > like KDE, firefox files. Everything else is in data.
Username doesn't make a difference. It's the UID and GID that matters. Different distros use different values. I have created a different user account just for this purpose. I use the same UID across multiple distros. I use ACL to manage 'extra' permissions so that only one other user can modify the files in this directory. Oh and if you want my advise, do NOT share /home. Bad idea. Mrugesh -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
