Re: Admin Questions
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Dan Furtney wrote:
> This is a bit off topic but the knowledege seems to be here so what the
> heck. When I did the Deb install I used the existing /home and swap
> areas from a RedHat installation residing on the same disk. I thought I
> would be able to use my /home/dan directory in Debian or RedHat. When I
> used adduser to create the account under Debian It recognized that the
> /home/dan directory existed and didn't overwrite it. The problem is that
> I don't have permissions for the directory from the debian account. The
> RedHat end is still fine. How should this be done? TIA
You need to make sure the UID and GID (numerical) are the same under both
distributions.
Matthew
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