--- On Tue, 10/20/09, Andy Pintar <[email protected]> wrote: From: Andy Pintar <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [MLUG] Synchronizing Root numbers for different Distributions To: "Montreal Linux Users Group" <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, October 20, 2009, 1:04 PM That's weird, root should be user 0, no? I think when you want to preserve UIDs across multiple machines the best way to do that is with ldap. Perhaps a little complicated for home use, but it means that your UIDs will be consistent. You shouldn't really be copying as root... I suppose if you're backing up /etc you might need that for some files. What are you using to backup? tar can preserve UIDs etc, but if you're pulling using rsync you can save all files with the running UID, which means it will be consistent on the backup drive at least. On Tue, 20 Oct 2009, 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 -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca ------------------ I am backing up with a USB drive. My data is diverse, but not voluminous. Its just a real pain as unrecognized group numbers or user numbers cause inconsistencies everywhere for every group of files on the USB terabyte drive. Leslie Leslie Satenstein
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