Best thing then is to set up a 2-drive system, put some non-critical data
files in the home directories and try it out then. Although presumably, if
I do manage to balls up the IDs and block the data, then it's just a case
of logging in as root and sorting out permissions??
Cheers
Phil
On 5 September 2014 21:00, Joe Zeff <joe(a)zeff.us> wrote:
On 09/05/2014 12:31 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
> A little bit of tinkering is necessary. You'll need to make sure you use
> the
> same numeric user IDs and group IDs -- file ownership is really based on
> the
> numbers, and the name is associated by looking in /etc/password. So if the
> name matches but the number doesn't, the users won't be able to access
> their
> files.
>
I'm not sure, but I think that if you reuse an existing home folder and
tell the setup program not to clear it out, it takes care of that for you.
The only time I needed to do this, I just made sure that I created the
accounts in the same order as before so that they had the same UID/GID,
which is probably safest.
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