On Sat, 26 Jan 2002 20:24:11 -0600
Michael Hipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spewed into the bitstream:
> What are the problems to overcome in sharing /home among different
> distros?
>
> I have /home as a separate partition on Caldera 3.1 and I'd like to
> share it with Desktop/LX (aka Redmond Linux). And maybe Mandrake and Elx
> eventually. They all use KDE so that makes some things easier.
I've been doing this for _years_ without a problem. I also have a common
/boot partition with only two kernel images (the latest one and the old
one). I point LILO at the new one for all distros, just change the label=
and root= line.
>
> One problem: on COL 3.1 I'm michael:x:500:100 whereas on Desktop/LX I'm
> michael:x:100:100. Presumably I could just change the uid and chown
> everything in /home/michael???
Why don't you just edit one passwd file so they're both the same?
Typically, I just use one passwd, group, shadow file that's copied to each
distro. I do make sure any system user entries are added where they might
be needed.
Ciao,
David A. Bandel
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