[Gllug] Triple booting Win2k, Debian, RedHat

Bruce Richardson itsbruce at uklinux.net
Fri Mar 1 17:17:29 UTC 2002


On 3/1/02, 5:20:42 PM, Dave Cridland <dave at cridland.net> wrote regarding 
RE: [Gllug] Triple booting Win2k, Debian, RedHat:


> I would guess (although possibly incorrectly) that Debian would do the
> same as RedHat, and assign the first "normal user" with a UID of 500, at
> which point you just pick a different name. That avoids you all the
> problems, but still gives you the convenience.

Debian starts user uids at 1000, though this is configurable in 
/etc/adduser.conf.  It might be wiser to modify RH upwards than Debian 
downwards.

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Bruce

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