[Dclug] RedHat Enterprise Linux subscription expired... oh my.

[Jesse Becker]

On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Mackenzie Morgan <macoafi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Oh, even with separate partitions, you still might need to mess with
>  permissions.  I know Red Hat starts UIDs and GIDs at 500 but Debian at
>  1000, so you might have to do a mass chown.

The user accounts won't matter, so long as there are no collisions.
The real trick will be if Debian has any system accounts with UIDs
greater than 499, and/or the system account UIDs don't match.

But yes, judicious use of 'chown -R' might be needed.



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Jesse Becker
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