On Saturday 26 Jul 2003 7:12 pm, Technoslick wrote: > 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. > This can also cause problems if you are installing two versions of the distro, or any distro for that matter. Unless you use the same routine every time for adding users you will get crossed in the UIDs (there's a way round it, which I think Derek pointed out), so my routine is to add root and myself only at install, then add users one at a time and in the same order every time. Without this the users can't read their own folders and files that have the UID attached as owner.
Anne
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