Re: Share the same Mail und News directories in two differnt Linux...

From: Dave Brown (dhbrown_at_hobbes.dhbrown.net)
Date: 12/02/03 

Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 17:04:41 GMT

In article <sweet.nirwana_ism2r7zn5ycj.fsf@home_at>, Josef Oswald wrote:
>>> Nedavno Josef Oswald pise:
>>>| This is the situation, I have two different versions of Linux
>>>| installed ( Debian 3.0 r2 and Mandrake 9.2) As I use for my mail and
>>>| news reading mainly Gnus in XEmacs, I would like to be able to use the
>>>| Mail and News directory in both.
> ...
>
> The problems seems that Debian 3.0r1 and Mandrake 9.2 can't share
> the same /home/oswald, so most likely I will go as you suggest with:
>
>> When I created username on both, I made sure that the UID and
>> GID are the same for both Linux setups. I leave the mail in the system
>
> Now a novice question, how do I change both if them?
> well man UID and Man GID bot give me no entry for them.
> anyway a search on goolge is in most cases helpful...

You probably have some ownership changing to do:

In /etc/passwd, you'll find a line for your user:
...
dhbrown:x:501:501: <etc>
...
Field 3 is the UID, field 4 is the GID. These numbers have to tbe the
same on both installations.

Then, I'd change the ownership (logged in as root) on /home/dhbrown and
/var/spool/mail/dhbrown thusly:

chown dhbrown:dhbrown /home/dhbrown /var/spool/mail/dhbrown

I'm assuming that Debian creates a private GID for each UID; RedHat does,
SuSE does not. On SuSE, you'd have to create the group 'dhbrown' in the
/etc/group file. 

-- 
Dave Brown  Austin, TX

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