From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Glynn Clements Subject: Re: installing multuple distributions Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 09:51:22 +0000 Message-ID: <18834.40858.782767.935914@cerise.gclements.plus.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: xtekhne@gmail.com Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org Pol wrote: > Probably i should make sure that /etc/passwd and /etc/groups are the same in > all distributions. > Do you think it would work? Your user accounts should have the same UID/GID if you are planning on using a common /home partition. However, you shoudn't modify the system UIDs/GIDs. Bear in mind that the filesystem stores numeric UID/GID, not user/group names. If you change the UIDs/GIDs in the passwd and group files, files and directories will have the wrong owner. Some configuration files may also use numeric UIDs/GIDs. -- Glynn Clements