Re: [Vectorlinux-devel] Alpha 2.2

[uel a. <ue...@gm...>]

I think moe is working on fixing the GUI installer to start at  1000.
there are 2 ways currently change the UID of the first user to 1000:
1) create the user from vasm on first boot
2) on first boot, edit /etc/passwd, /etc/group and change the UID to 1000,
then chown -R 1000 /home/usrname, and chgrp -R 1000 /home/username


Uel

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Paul Marwick <pa...@wa...> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
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