I shouldn't reply to my own note, I know. But I should have mentioned that even if you keep user names the same, different distros presumably allocate different UIDs to the users and so the ownership of home directories becomes confused.
Maybe you could circumvent this by creating the users in the same sequence during each successive installation, but this requires good record keeping!
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releases for a while untilI I settled withRedhat 8.
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Laurie Savage ================================ Physics/Maths/IT Teacher Pascoe Vale Girls' College Pascoe Vale, Victoria, AUSTRALIA ================================ On 2003-07-17 23:33:16 +0000 mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi all, I just reads Ron's Mandrake 9.1 upgrade woes and thought I might throw this into the ring. I have made a habit of creating a partition called Home During my linux installs. This way my data is always intact even if an install goes horribly wrong, or if I have reinstall the OS (Like reverting back to RH 8.0, because of the ATi/Xinerama dramas in 9.0)
Not being a linux guru, it's nice to know that if I truck up the OS, I can reinstall the OS and my 'home' directories and it's contents are unaffected.
Just a thought
Regards
Mick
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