Roman Drahtmueller wrote:
but UIDGID's may conflict so don't just copy stuff over. You'll prolly also need to create /home/* directories. An easy way to do this would be tu run /etc/passwd and group through something like awk that puts out data to groupadd/useradd.
This basically one of the reasons why SuSE Linux has so many users installed by default. If you add these users dynamically when you need them, you run into trouble.
I concur. On mission-critical systems I'm always feeling *very* unhappy that SuSE Linux comes with so many default users and groups. Usually I delete them all but it takes some time to figure out which home-directories you can delete. Annoying! I see no reason that application-specific user entries cannot be installed on-the-fly during package install. If an UID or a GID is already in use the installation should simply fail with a meaningful error message. Ciao, Michael.