Re: [Vectorlinux-devel] Alpha 2.2

[Paul M. <pa...@wa...>]

uel archuletta wrote:
> paul,
> do you have any directories in /home?

:) I sure do. At the moment, my home partition has a user for Zenwalk, a 
user for VL6.0 standard, a user for VL5.9 standard, a user for Salix and 
a couple of leftovers which that I can't remember what they were for...

> I remember talking about reserving UID's for home folders that were
> found owned by UID's not in passwd, so if you imported a user they could
> keep that dir and UID.
> I am not sure if that is what is going on or not.

I wondered about something like that, but didn't think the number being 
used made much sense if that was the case...

I use a separate home partition. Since all the distributions I'm 
currently using start UIDs from 1000, I can then use a common area for 
documents, downloads, etc. Having SOHO assign 1002 breaks its ability to 
use the shared resources, which is a real pain....

> is there a reason you are not importing old user?

At the moment, mainly because I didn't want to carry over any problems 
from earlier alphas, and since the user accounts haven't been used much, 
it has been easier to simply use a new user account.

Is there any way of forcing the correct UID? That would solve the 
problem for me, and I'm not sure how many others would find it as much 
of a stopper as I do. Though I do know a few people who do set things up 
in a similar manner.

Regards, Paul.