On Sat, Jul 24, 1999 at 11:22:26AM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote:
> Not for the _same_ distro, it isn't. I do share /home with hamm and
> slink. I tried it with Slackware and Slink and screwed Slink up
> badly! Seems that slackeware starts their user id's at 500, whereas
> Debian starts them at 1000. Took me a while to fix all of that mess.
> I would not recommend it to anyone.
The trick is to keep the numeric UID and GID information in sync. NIS
is a wonderful thing.
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