On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 21:36:55 +0000, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > I'm in the process of moving from Ubuntu to Debian. I've installed > squeeze and want to restore some of 2 users home files and directories > from a backup made in Ubuntu. There are also some files from /etc needed > to be restored. > > I preserved the user names for both of users in a new squeeze > installation but UID and GID are different. So, by simply using 'cp - a' > (or rsync) I would run into problem of their mismatch. > > Is there a simple and quick way to resolve it or I'll have to go trough > this mess manually one step at a time? > > I know I could change UID and GID in Debian to Ubuntu values but I am > quite reluctant to go this way. > > Thank you.
Looks that I've confused in my memory Debian UID's and GID's with Fedora ones. Just a quick glance resolved the "problem" - Debian uses the same values as Ubuntu does. Good. Sorry, for an invalid question. I'll try to be more careful in the future. Thank you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/ioqabf$gbq$1...@dough.gmane.org
