switching distros

[ssc1478]

On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:18:21 -0700
Pastor JW <pastor_jw at the-inner-circle.org> wrote:

> Back abit someone mentioned they had installed Ubuntu and there was
> something to the effect of not seeing the users from a different
> (Mandriva I think) distro. 

Yeah that was me.  Mandriva users are in the 500's and Ubuntu users are
in the 1000's, and only those show up in the gui users and groups
option.  

What I did was change the uid and groupid of the /home
directory to match what Ubuntu created.  I couldn't create the
user using the gui because the /home directory already existed.  So I
had to create the user in a terminal.  Here's what I did:

# sudo su
# adduser phil

# chmod -R 744 /home/phil/
# chown -R phil:phil /home/phil/
# chmod 644 /home/phil/.dmrc
# chown phil:phil /home/phil/.dmrc

Phil