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

[Richard Meyer]

On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 08:59 +0800, rpowersau at gmail.com wrote:
> 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.

Then edit /etc/passwd and /etc/group to give the user you keep the
userid and group he was supposed to have.

Or don't delete the first user - just change the name in /etc/passwd
and /etc/group

More than one way to skin a cat.


-- 
Richard Meyer <meyerri at westnet.com.au>
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eliminates dreams, goals, and ideals and lets us get straight to the
business of hate, debauchery, and self-annihilation.
                -- Johnny Hart