The trouble I'm running into now is with file permissions. Again, I'm
trying to share a /home between each distro (in an attempt to keep my
settings & profiles mobile between distros). I find that when I login
I get permission denied errors & GDM craps out on me.
>From what I can find it looks like each distro handles the user/group
a bit differently. What suggestions do you have for allowing each
distro to share the /home and allow settings & profiles to be loaded
on each? The only solution I've used so far is to simply login as
root.. not the best.
Just make sure your UID and GID are the same on each distro.
You may need to edit /etc/passwd and /etc/group on some of the
distros until they all match. Then you may need to
chown -R <you>.<your group> /home/<you>
if you standardized away from the current state of /home.
After that, you should be able to share /home across all the
distros. Now you only have to worry about incompatible versions
of things (like gnome) trying to share the same dot-files. If you
have problems with this, I have some tricks to help with that as well.
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