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On Sun, 20 Oct 2002 16:06:30 +0000
begin Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spewed forth:
> I keep all my home stuff in a /home partition. Since most of my
> partitions are versions of gentoo, the userid's match up and I am able
> to use /home without any complaints. Now I beginning to experiment
> again with other distros, and I can't mount and use /home
> successfully, because the user numbers don't match.
>
> For example, I created a LRs-linux 3.0 system (automated version of
> LFS). I've toyed with /etc/group and deleted and readded the collins
> user several times, but I can't get LRs-linux to use the same user
> number as I was on gentoo, so of course my collins user on LRs can't
> use my /home files.
>
> I'm sure I will encounter the same problem with Redhat which I am
> downloading now.
>
> Can anyone help?
During install, don't create a new user, just the root account.
Find out what values are used for UID, and what name/GID is used for your
group. If necessary, create the group account with the appropriate GID,
then the user account with the appropriate UID. This can be done either
from the command line (useradd permits you to specify the UID, ditto for
groupadd) or use webmin.
Ciao,
David A. Bandel
- --
Focus on the dream, not the competition.
-- Nemesis Racing Team motto
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