On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 12:29 -0400, Ric Wheeler wrote: > On 07/20/2011 12:28 PM, Miloslav Trmač wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 6:24 PM, Ric Wheeler<rwhee...@redhat.com> wrote: > >> I normally build systems with (at least!) a separate /boot, / and /home. > >> This lets me do a full install, blow away old fedora system partitions and > >> not lose any user data. > >> > >> Since that puts down a pristine F16 image, does that mean we need to chown > >> all of the user files that survive in a separate partition? > > Either chown the files, or create a kickstart file that puts > > /etc/login.defs in place in a %pre script. chown is probably much > > simpler unless you have many systems to manage. > > Mirek > > Makes sense... > > We should also note that this might be a common need for users who have SAN > attached storage (and that could be large, multi-user systems).
If they don't already have a directory or at the very least a way to rsync /etc/passwd around they do not have a production grade installation. If they already have shared user information this change shouldn't make much of a difference to them unless they want to change existing user Ids. Simo. -- Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
