On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 10:36, Laurie Savage wrote: > 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. <snipped>
Note that trying to "re-use" your home directories can break things, particular where inappropriate config settings are stored in files like .bashrc To be fair on a distribution, you should backup your home directories and then move them out of the way when you do the distro install and create users. This way you know all the config files have been created from the correct skel files, etc. If something doesn't work, you then know it is the distros fault and not some strange file format clash caused by stale files in the users home directory. Cheers, Malcolm V. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
