14 Mar
2006
14 Mar
'06
3:48 a.m.
On Tuesday 14 March 2006 09:00, Nikhil Marathe wrote:
I got an idea. Keep all my files in /data which is a shared partition then since my username is same on all distros, recursive chmod it. And then every distro has a small /home of about 100megs only for app preferences like KDE, firefox files. Everything else is in data.
Username doesn't make a difference. It's the UID and GID that matters. Different distros use different values. I have created a different user account just for this purpose. I use the same UID across multiple distros. I use ACL to manage 'extra' permissions so that only one other user can modify the files in this directory.
Oh and if you want my advise, do NOT share /home. Bad idea.
Mrugesh