[P1] Old G3 to New iBook G4

[Joost van de Griek]

On 2004-05-07 2:13, Allan Hise wrote:

> On Wed, 5 May 2004, Joost van de Griek wrote:
> 
>> It's very unlikely that the user on the new 'Book and the old user will have
>> the same user Ids on both installs,
> 
> Why not? Maybe I'm just lucky but with all 6 or so fresh OS X installs fof
> various flavors I have done, the user created after booting the first time
> after install is always uid 501. If you use the same short name both times, it
> would seem to me that everything should be in sync.

Really? Hm, I hadn't noticed that.

Anyway, I'll venture that there's no *guarantee* that the two users will
have the same UID, so to be on the safe side... :-P

> I'll agree that once you start adding multiple users, it gets tricky though...

I always have more than one user ("normal" user, development user,
troubleshooting user, girlfriend user, ...), maybe that's why I ran into the
aforementioned problem.

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