I agree with Jeff - Shouldn't you be able to log into a /home partition from another machine/distro and read your files? It seems there needs to be a standardisation of uids/gids across distros. The aim is to be mainstream isn't it? Because if it isn't then Gawd help us 5-10-20 years downstream when every algorithm is patented and no file can be read six months after it has been created on software that MUST be updated.
Reminds me of old days on the left in the 70s, sniping between factions leads to marginalisation. I'm sure you all know the Monty Python/Life of Brian scene with the revolutionaries - "so who are we against?" On 19 Jul 2003, Malcolm V wrote: > On Sat, 2003-07-19 at 17:57, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > That's not the point. Assuming the same user database (LDAP, yp, whatever), > > *nothing* should stop you from logging in to the same home directory from > > multiple machines. Anything that does is a bug (and yes, there are a few > > still around in GNOME, which we are fixing). > > > > It's nothing to do with distros or operating systems or architectures being > > different. > > Well, of course it is a bug, but that wasn't my point. > > My point was that those bugs are best avoided by not re-using home > directories across distribution installs. This is particularly important > when you are "trialling" a new distro and want to see it in all _its_ > glory, without the dags of another distro possibly stinking it up. > > It also ensures a cleaning of the crufty 'dot' files accumulating in > your home directory, but that is a different matter. > > Everyone is quite happy to espouse the advantages of "/home" on a > different partition, IF we didn't have to worry about bugs, I wouldn't > have posted anything... > > Cheers, > Malcolm V. > > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
