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> From: B. Dragoo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Ernest Johanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Redhat to Debian: migrating a multi-user server
>
>
> --- Ernest Johanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [snip]
>
> &g
--- Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It's perfectly safe to keep those users starting at
> 500. Debian
> packages that want an id in the 100-999 range will
> dynamically allocate
> it with adduser, which will never trample over an
> existing user, and it
> doesn't matter what user id it p
--- Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> uid's 100 - 999 are reserved for the packaging
> system/daemons etc.
> you won't likely have a problem but it would be
> better to migrate to
> debian policy anyway.
Yeah, that's about how I'm thinking about it, too.
Debian goes through so much to
Ethan Benson wrote:
> uid's 100 - 999 are reserved for the packaging system/daemons etc.
> you won't likely have a problem but it would be better to migrate to
> debian policy anyway.
It's perfectly safe to keep those users starting at 500. Debian
packages that want an id in the 100-999 range w
--- Ernest Johanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip]
> One idea might be to do a search and replace on the
> passwd file, placing a
> 1 (or 2, etc) in front of the existing user id. That
> would necessitate
> changing the ids on the user's files. I had a
> similar situation and wrote
> a Perl sc
> Ethan Benson writes:
eb> if you extract the home directories after creating the new user
eb> accounts they should get the new ownership properly as GNU tar is
eb> fairly smart about this sort of thing.
Actually, a tar file (according to POSIX) can have the uid only
represented
: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Redhat to Debian: migrating a multi-user server
>
> This is not a "Which is better, Red Hat or Debian?"
> question, but a very specific question about a distro
> migration of one specific box. I've done a lot of
> resear
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 02:06:26PM -0800, B. Dragoo wrote:
>
> My main issue is getting user accounts over. It would
> be very easy to copy the lines from my passwd, shadow,
> and group files over to the potato box, but I'm
> concerned about the fact that RH begins uids with 500,
> while Debian b
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 02:06:26PM -0800, B. Dragoo wrote:
:My questions, then, are these: is there anything
:about this situation that will make Debian break? Are
:there debianized packages that rely on having normal
:(i.e., non-system user) uids above 1000? Is there
:anything
I would be ver
This is not a "Which is better, Red Hat or Debian?"
question, but a very specific question about a distro
migration of one specific box. I've done a lot of
research on this, and have found no answers particular
enough to my situation.
The box in question is still running RH 5.2 (with all
security
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