Leslie Satenstein wrote: > I have a backup drive onto which I collect data from Ubuntu, Fedora, > Centos, and occasionally other data from a virtual system. > > Root in Ubuntu is predefined as #1000, in Fedora it is predefined as #500. > > I can force non-root user numbers and groups to commence at 1500, so > that backing up files from UBUNTU for user xyz will be have the same > userid as in Fedora , Centos, or SUSE. > > How can I convert root id to a common number across the > distributions. Is this possible? > > Leslie > Root is actually id# 0 usually. Your userid starts at 1000 in ubuntu.
I assume you want to be able to write to the drive as a normal user in any distro. I would simply make a folder and chmod it 777 I think that should do it. Jeremy _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
