[Dclug] sharing /home with mutliple distros

[Angelo Bertolli]

Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
> By not paying attention, I formatted /dev/sda instead of /dev/sdb, but 
> now I'm taking it as an opportunity to set up a weird mutliboot 
> configuration.  One problem remains.  The distros are fighting over 
> who gets permissions on /home.  I *could* make a different username on 
> each and then have file permissions issues between all the different 
> /home/me1 /home/me2 etc, but I want to avoid that (besides that it'd 
> still mean knowing which distro I was in when I saved something).  I 
> would like them all to share the same home drive then (not just the 
> partition), but I get errors in both Fedora and Ubuntu (haven't set 
> any others up yet) regarding permissions on ~/.dmrc and how they have 
> to be 644.  I keep setting them to that, but it seems if I tell Ubuntu 
> to use those permissions, it breaks Fedora and vice versa.  Does 
> anyone know a way around this?  I don't want to have to have multiple 
> home drives.
I've tried to reuse home directories before, and I think it's more 
complicated than just screwy permissions.  I think X may be set up 
differently on the distros, or it needs something specific in 
.Xauthority or something... it's been a while though.  It's better to 
just link the kinds of things you want to share, like your Documents/ 
directory.

Angelo