[Discuss] user name id

[brendan]

just make sure to chown any files owned by UID 1001 on the opensuse
machine back to UID 1000 and you should be fine. (it's probably just
/home/john that will need the chown -R)

you might want to make the user's GIDs match up too.

On 2019-10-21 3:39 p.m., John Blomfield wrote:
> I am running Fedora on a partition on my desktop and OpenSuse on
> another partition on the same computer. The default user name on both
> is "john" but on Fedora this is mapped to an id 1000 and on OpenSuse
> to  1001. This in itself is not a problem but I want to share data on
> another partition and it causes an ownership error. I assume that I
> can change the mapping on or the other e.g. change OpenSuse "john" to
> map to 1000.
>
> Will this cause any other unforeseen problems?
>
> John
>