From: BitTwister@mouse-potato.com   
      
   On Wed, 02 Nov 2022 11:40:39 +0000, bad sector wrote:   
   > On Wed, 2 Nov 2022 02:56:39 -0000 (UTC), Rich wrote:   
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   > I'm not the only one but I do use several user id's and some users have   
   > all their stuff linked to a remote data medium. This way a user home data   
   > failure on either the remote medium or in the root /home tree of real   
   > files still allows logging-in as another user. All users may boot any one   
   > of 7 distros so it's important to have totally uniform user id's,   
   > groupings, GID's etc. or I run into issues with that layer of user data   
   > that is common to all systems and linked from all distros. So thanks, I   
   > will now edit to something like 1950 in Slackware as well and see to   
   > changing all the perms accordingly.   
      
   Yep I hear that. I also have a multi-boot setup. All installs are clean,   
   not upgrades. All common users have a 15xx uid/gid to make it easy to   
   extract/replace them from /etc/group, gshadow, passwd, and shadow files.   
      
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