On Sunday 22 June 2003 00:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > > I'm 'cr', UID 1000 in my Debian setup. However, under RedHat I was > > UID 500 and all my heaps of data (left over from RedHat) is filed as > > owner 500 group 500. This means I can't readily access it without > > changing something. > > (snip rest of my own post for brevity)
> > I usually do this when I first install a new distro and before I mount my > regular /home partition. > > adduser --uid 500 ajlewis2 > > After I have made the user and have the /home/ajlewis2 directory I edit > fstab so that my /home partition will be mounted on the next reboot and > then do 'mount /home' Now I have all my personal files in /home/ajlewis2 > and my uid on the new distro is 500 like it was on the old distro. I came > from RedHat a few years ago and am still using that original /home > partition. I have shared it between distros a couple of times and had a > few configuration files overwritten; so be careful if you do that. > > If you make this change after you have a bunch of files already on your > debian user directory, then you will have to deal with changing those, but > since it is a new install that should be minimal. > > Anita Well, while I was using RedHat, I kept /home on /dev/hdc2, and the operating system on /dev/hda. That way, when I installed a new version by swapping /dev/hda for a spare one, all my settings were kept intact. However, with this Debian install, /home is on /dev/hda along with the rest of the distro. This is partly by accident (since I forgot to tell the installer that /home was on /dev/hdc2 if indeed the installer gives that option). However, I've concluded that Debian is probably sufficiently different from RedHat that importing a bunch of RH configuration could have unpredictable results. I just copied across the /Mail directory and left it at that. As to my UID, I changed it with usermod and everything seems to work, so far. Thanks cr ... user 500 - half a Debian user :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
