On 5/15/07, Charles Curley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Being unhappy with Fedora, I thought I'd try Ubuntu. I now have a systewm that dual boots with Fedora Core 6 and Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (7.04). I would like to use the same /home partition for each installation.
What makes you unhappy about Fedora? Is the User Private Group (UPG) scheme? The (first) problem I have hit is that Fedora creates users with UIDs
and GIDs starting at 500, where Ubuntu starts at 1000. I've already found out that Ubuntu does not like regular accounts with UIDs or GIDs less than 1000.
You can change the UID_MIN and GID_MIN values in /etc/login.defs in Fedora to be any value you like. I can change the UIDs of files with "chown -R --from=500 1000" and
similarly for GIDs. I can delete and recreate the account.
Create a user with: groupadd -g 1001 groupname useradd -g groupname -u 1001 username passwd username And that will accomplish the same thing before you even create the account.
What other little beartraps are there waiting for me? Or is there a better way to do this.
Yes, there's a better way, as I described above. For the most part, that will work on both Ubuntu and Fedora AFAIK. Cheers, Clint /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
