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On Fri, 11 May 2007 21:43:37 +0100
"Jonathan Roberts" <jonathan.roberts.uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello Jonathan,
> You would still have to install all your favorite applications but
> they should at least have the correct settings :D
It's often considered ill-advised to share a home directory among
different distros, because there are plenty of hidden files that get
written to, and you can end up with all sorts of permissions problems.
Sharing /home is fine, but sharing /home/user between Debian and
Mandriva, for example, is asking for a whole lot of trouble. Although
the user *name* might be the same, the user *ID* will quite possibly be
different[0]. It's far better to create a new user, and copy any
required settings from the old directory. For example, things
like .Xauthority and .DCOPserver*, etc. aren't likely to take too
kindly to being non-writeable if you just use the same directory.
[0] Almost certainly with the two distros listed, since Debian starts
numbering UIDs from 500, whereas Mandriva starts at 1000.
Even if the IDs are the same, each distro may well completely stuff up
the other distros settings.
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