On 07/03/2011 02:26 PM, Petrus de Calguarium wrote:
JD wrote:
>> Machine one..johan 1000:1000
>> Machine two ..johan 500:500
This is the problem I had with Debian and friends.
Fedora starts users at 500, while Debian&c uses 1000. So, if you use the same
username on both, you now have the same user with both 500 and 1000 uid. When
you log back into fedora (at least that is what happened to me), my stuff is
now changed to user 500, or was it 501. It was a real mess! And the problem
with Debian systems is that I could not find a way to get users to start at
500, so as to be the same as Fedora. It was a mess, so I decided no longer to
mount user data to non-Fodora systems.
I think you have exposed a very interesting problem.
It means that if, for example, /home was created on
separate partition on a fedora machine,
and you decide to share that home mount point with
other linux/es /, (many people have multiple versions of
linux installed on same machine), then there will be
this incompatibility as far as uid's and gid's are concerned.
I wonder why the distros do not agree to starting with
the same uid/gid number for first user account.
Perhaps it is the drive to be different :)