Oh, I see. Sorry for the trouble.
On 03/20/2017 08:51 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Control: severity -1 wishlist > Control: retitle -1 add support for importing users from other systems > > jyn...@gmail.com wrote: >> Package: base >> Severity: normal >> Tags: d-i >> >> Dear Maintainer, >> >> I recently installed Debian from an Ubuntu host. I use a mounted home >> partition for just these scenarios. >> Debian installed and booted properly, but on the (graphical) login screen, >> did not show my user >> account made with Ubuntu. Ubuntu similarly does not recognize the default >> user account installed by >> Debian. Both operating systems function well individually. >> The strangest part of this is that /home clearly shows both folders when I >> access it in files, but >> does not recognize the folder as a user in the Users application or login >> screen. > Hi, > > The data in home directories is just data on the disk; the actual user > account/authentication data is kept elsewhere in the system, and that > is never automatically imported. It should be feasible to write a > program to do that, but I don't think that's something that's a > priority for the Debian team. >
