Changes in postlfs/config/skel.xml [45ab6c7:3f2db3a6]

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• postlfs/config/skel.xml (modified) (2 diffs)

postlfs/config/skel.xml

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   <?dbhtml filename="skel.html"?>
 
-  <sect1info>
-    <date>$Date$</date>
-  </sect1info>
 
   <title>Configuring for Adding Users</title>
@@ -133 +130 @@
 <screen role="root"><userinput>useradd -m <replaceable>&lt;newuser&gt;</replaceable></userinput></screen>
 
+  <para>
+    If you are sharing a <filename class="directory">/home</filename>
+    or <filename class="directory">/usr/src</filename> with another
+    Linux distro (for example, the host distro used for building LFS), you
+    can create a user with the same UID (and, same primary group GID) to
+    keep the file ownership consistent across the systems.  First, on
+    <emphasis>the other distro</emphasis>, get the UID of the user and the
+    GID of the user's primary group:
+  </para>
+
+<screen role="nodump"><userinput>getent passwd <replaceable>&lt;username&gt;</replaceable> | cut -d ':' -f 3,4</userinput></screen>
+
+  <para>
+    The command should output the UID and GID, separated by a colon.  Now
+    on the BLFS system, create the primary group and the user:
+  </para>
+
+<screen role="root"><userinput>groupadd -g <replaceable>&lt;GID&gt;</replaceable> <replaceable>&lt;username&gt;</replaceable> &amp;&amp;
+useradd -u <replaceable>&lt;UID&gt;</replaceable> -g <replaceable>&lt;username&gt;</replaceable> <replaceable>&lt;username&gt;</replaceable></userinput></screen>
+
 </sect1>