<posted & mailed> 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
