[Discuss] user name id

[Craig Miller]

John,

If both systems share the same /home partition, you may run into a 
problem, as the .files may lean to one distro or the other. If not, then 
you should be OK with the same UID and GID.

Craig...

On 10/21/19 3:39 PM, 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
>

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