From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pol Subject: [--tech--]Re: installing multuple distributions Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 09:46:12 +0100 Message-ID: References: <498CEB3B.3090605@mines.edu> 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 Yuri Csapo wrote: > Pol, > > Yes, it would certainly work. The important files to look at are, as you > said, /etc/passwd and /etc/group; but also /etc/shadow. I don't think > it's a good idea to make them the same because different distros will > have different ways of doing things and different required > administrative users and groups; things like lp, admin, etc. All you > need to do is make sure that your own user entry (and those of other > users of the system) has the same UID and belongs to the same primary > group, which should have the same GID. Also, I'd make the passwords the > same across the distros just to keep sane... Good luck! yes, i realise /etc/passwd and /etc/group might contain distribution-specific details thank you --P