[plug] new lappy, just move "home" ?

[rpowersau at gmail.com]

On 8/19/05, Timothy White <weirdit at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 8/19/05, rpowersau at gmail.com <rpowersau at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The only 'gotcha' I hit once was the user id number. My original user
> > number was 1000. When I installed linux on the new machine by 
> default/habit
> > I created a user and being the first non-root user its number was also 
> 1000.
> > When I transfered my original user onto the machine it didn't like the 
> idea
> > of two users with the same number. :)
> 
> Nothing a quick chown -R can't fix.



How does that solve having two users with the same id number? You have to 
remove one of the users, make sure it's gone from the passwd file. And I'd 
assume he'd want to keep the same username.


-- 
Regards,
Russ
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