On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 19:33, Anne Wilson wrote: > 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 > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Would it not be better to use NIS?
David
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