On Tuesday 31 March 2009 21:39:11 Jim wrote: > That doesn't seem to work for what I'm doing. > > What I'm trying to do is change all directories/files in a /home/user, > from one owner/group to another owner/group. > > When I installed FC10, fresh install and format the / partition and > left the /home partition from the old fedora 8 install > in place. > FC10 for some reason change all the directories/files to another user on > box into a /home/user. > I know this sounds confusing but the point, /home/molly has the wrong > owner/group on her files. I have got to get them back to molly:molly in > /home/molly. > > Thanks again > > Thanks for your help What you actually need to do is create the user on the new install with the same UID. See the "useradd" command; run useradd --help to see options. Log in as root, or run as /usr/sbin/useradd. You may have to "shuffle" the user IDs around to make them all the same, see also the "usermod" command. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
