From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ulrich =?ISO-8859-15?Q?F=FCrst?= Subject: Re: preserving logins Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 23:40:00 +0200 Message-ID: <20050630234000.24f2c38c@localhost> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Karthik Vishwanath wrote: > I want to retain the same logins/uids/gids for all the > users from the Redhat installation. How can I do this? I don't know RH so I don't know which uid/gid the users/groups have. For Debian the user IDs normaly begin with 1000. You could add new users in Debian with: # adduser --uid $UID_FROM_RH $USER without problems. You can take every UID that isn't in use by the system already. (Didn't test it with uid lower than one hundred). There's another limit at 100. AFAIK below 100 the system groups and above groups from programs such as exim, spamassassin an so on. Sorry, can't find the exact rule for that at the moment. Ulrich - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs