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On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 02:05:47PM -0500, mark@??? wrote:
> > If you're suggesting that all the distributions share the same /home
> > partition, would that not cause problems for application configuration?
> > I thought that some applications stored config details in .(dot) files in
> > /home which would mean that each distro would then over-write these each
> > time you set up a new distro.
>
> Also, if two different distros use different UIDs for the first non-root
> user created by the installer, you'd get problems with reading and writing
> to the home directory.
> I believe I had this problem when I tried to get Ubuntu and SUSE to use
> the same home partition. Unless of course you create and entirely
> different user (e.g. username-ubuntu and username-suse) for each distro
> and then copy across the configuration files or documents to each home
> directory.
That's relatively easily fixed, though -- you can generally just
create a user with the same uid (and name) in every install.
Hugo.
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