On Friday 25 July 2003 06:23 pm, Andy Davidson graced me with: > I just installed 9.1 on a new system and ran into a difference > between how the installer creates new users and how drakconf does. > I created a couple of users during the install and they ended up > with uid = 501 and 502. As they always have on previous versions > of Mandrake. > > Then when the system was up I created several more, very carefully > creating them in the same order as on our other systems. After I > spent all the time getting them created and set up, I discovered > that they did not match the uid's on our other systems. It seems > that drakconf starts its numbering at 500. So, using letters for > the order in which I created them, the users were a=501, b=502, > c=500, d=503, e=504, etc. > > I had to rip out all the users from c up, create a dummy at 500 and > redo them. > > Argghhh. Why? > > andy
I haven't encountered this problem in Mandrake between the different ways that user accounts can be created. Thanks for the warning! I can sympathize with you. I run both Mandrake and Red Hat workstations connected to a Red Hat server. I found out long after I had set-up my first of the Red Hat PC's that they start users at UID=500, while Mandrake was always starting at UID=501. For the longest time, I couldn't understand why I was having Samba problems with shared files under rthe same user, but from different Linux machines. This was the culprit. Now, whenever I setup a RH workstation or server that needs to have sympathetic UID's, I create the user at the comand line with the correct UID to match those in Mandrake. FWIW, T
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