Martin Farmilo <martin@pcdoctor-home.biz> writes:

One thing to bear in mind is that Suse appears to start User IDs from 500 whereas Mandrake starts from 501.

SuSE-9.1 now starts them at 1000 by default, although you probably have the option of starting them at any number (including 501). I say this because I did an upgrade instead of a clean install on two machines and it left the User IDs the same (500), so there is no problem (yet!) with using id's from 500-999 for users.

So if you use the installation wizard to create the same users you have on Mandrake, bear that in mind otherwise they'll be assigned different IDs from the ones Mandrake uses. Obviously an issue if you intend sharing the /home area between Mandrake & Suse.

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