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I hate to do a ¨me too¨ post, but I was wondering specifically about any caveats of having multiple distros share a /home partition. It seems pretty trivial to just do it. It´s possible that the same user might have different passwords for each installed distribution. Just have to keep that straight.
Well, the numerical user-id's are what matters in the
file-system, not the names you give a user. Therefore,
if you have a user johndoe in one distro be 500, and
1000 in the next, the poor thing won't have permissions
to use /home/johndoe in one of them. And as for
passwd and shadow - they need to be in sync. passwd
stores the basic user information, shadow the password
and expiration information and such ...
man 5 passwd
man 5 shadow
okay I know most of that stuff. Where specifically do I need to look for the info on installing multiple Linux distros and haveing them share a home folder?
Mate, if you know all of rute and Machtelt's stuff
you should be able to understand
man 5 passwd
man 5 shadow
as well, and I don't need to elaborate on that ;)
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