On Sun, 2011-07-03 at 17:49 +0200, Johan Scheepers wrote: > I have a multiple boot internal drive (different linux > flavors)(excluding windows). > > Have a external usb drive for backup between these different systems. > > Now booting in a different flavor the permissions change to numbers. > > My normal permission is johan johan. I am the only user at home. But are those "johan" user accounts on each system using the same numerical user ID? If they're not, that's your problem. The OS doesn't care what name is associated with an ID, it's the ID that it works with. By default, with Red Hat -derived Linuxes, the first user created is (usually) 500. So, for instance, if you've installed Fedora over and over, the first username you create will have uid=500. And if that first user is always johan, it'll be 500. But, if you'd created other users first, or in different orders, they'll have different numbers. Other OSs, such as some Debian-derived ones, start with a user ID of 1000 (last time I used one, or was it BSD?). So it gets messier the more different OSs you install. It is possible to create users with specific IDs, but that can still be a problem with multi-boot system. Fedora, et cetera, consider IDs below 500 system IDs, and 500 and higher user IDs. Debian, used 1000 as the threshold. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
