From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pol Subject: Re: installing multuple distributions Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 09:57:22 +0100 Message-ID: References: <498C1854.9090808@agitate.org.uk> Reply-To: xtekhne@gmail.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Return-path: Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org Adam T. Bowen wrote: > Be careful if you intend to merge the different passwd and group files > because different distros may use different default IDs for system > accounts. A fun, but maybe slightly complicated way of doing this, would > be to store your user accounts in LDAP and have the LDAP data files on a > shared partition (/home would do). Make sure all the system users (UID < > 100) are stored in each distribution's local /etc/passwd file and set up > your nsswitch.conf so that it reads files and then ldap. Of course if > you are only going to have one user account, then this is *way* over the > top (but it would certainly teach you a lot about LDAP based > authentication). I am not a professional. Is there an easy way to try ldap? thank you --P