On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 09:45:06 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > Instead of using useradd to create user accounts can I just edit > /etc/passwd & /etc/group and place identical entries in the Gentoo > side as the FC2 side and then have both distros use the same home > directories? (Without Gentoo actually creating them?) I'd then run > passwd for each user and hopefully folks could log in. Or is there > more to creating a new user account?
That should work, but you may run into problems sharing a home directory between two distros. When I tried this with Mandrake and Gentoo, my KDE settings kept getting screwed up, because both distros stored the settings in ~/.kde but were running slightly different versions. The solution I used was to do as you have done and have the same user names and UIDs on both distros, but use a different home directory, like /home/neil and /home/neil-gentoo. I then symlinked the directories I wanted to share, like my mail and documents from the former to the latter. It worked perfectly for the few weeks it took me to decide I no longer needed Mandrake. -- Neil Bothwick "Bother," said Pooh, as he said f**k in the wrong conference.
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