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On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 05:09:00AM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>On 07/05/2010 04:41, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 03:22:58AM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>>> On 06/05/2010 21:36, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>> On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 03:22:39PM -0500, Jeremy Bopp wrote:
>>>>> Please bear in mind that what you are attempting to do is not really
>>>>> supported, so don't be surprised if you don't get a bunch of help.
>>>> I don't see why this wouldn't be supported actually.  If the 32/64 bit
>>>> systems have similar setups it should just work.
>>>   But surely they'll have different and incmpatible SIDs and perms and
>>> everything?
>> 
>> True, when I do this, I do have a different version of group and passwd
>> per system.
>> 
>> But, actually Corinna is contemplating something that will make that
>> unnecessary.
>
>  So, it might just start working as-is if OP runs mkpasswd and mkgroup from
>within both 64-bit and 32-bit boot systems and concatenates the results.

You'd have to make sure that everything was world-readable too.

cgf

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