Christoph Maier wrote: > Now that I have successfully installed a triple-boot system (Windows > XP, ubuntu 6.10 [default], and Fedora Core 6), I'm trying to share > files (e.g., the ~/.evolution mail archives) between the Linux > distributions on the commonly mounted /data volume. > > The gotcha is that ubuntu and Fedora assigned different UID to me, > (1000 and 500, respectively).
So now you've found another "detail to worry about" section for your web publishing endeavors. > See http://www.kernel-panic.org/Members/cmaier/hamburger-lugnut-log/ > for my latest antics. > Is it possible (and not too painful to bother) to change the UID of an > existing user? It is possible, and it's a nice little project, but on a new install, I would just delete one of the users and re-add with a specified UID that matches the other system. Specifying UID just means adding a -u1000 (say) to the useradd command -- see: man useradd > Is it better to create a group that contains both users #500 and #1000?? If you wanted to keep track of OS-"owner", I suppose that might actually be of some value, but in the normal case, I would vote for the simpler case of matching UIDs. > > Messing with UIDs looks like one of the things that don't look _too_ > hard, but may be a minefield of side effects... > Yes, and sorta' (One discovers lots of system details like mail caches, and sockets and session-data in /tmp). It's _fun_ learning about find and xargs and chown, but in cases like yours, I'd just do userdel (and homedir delete/move) followed by a useradd -u. Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie
