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Regards Mr. Leslie Leslie Satenstein voice: 514-369-1685 mailto:[email protected] --- On Tue, 10/20/09, Jeremy <[email protected]> wrote: From: Jeremy <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [MLUG] Synchronizing Root numbers for different Distributions To: "Montreal Linux Users Group" <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, October 20, 2009, 1:06 PM 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 Actually, Users start at 500 with Centos and Fedora (RedHat) and 1000 with UBUNTU. Their group numbers correspond. I usually have to force new users in Fedora to start at 1000. Sometimes though I forget or I find I cannot. Then I just have numbers for groupids and these numbers make no sense to one or the other distribution. I live with chown -R logonid:logonid . before I do a merge
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