On 06/07/2012 05:26 AM, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > I have a number of F14 partitions which must be mounted unchanged on the new F16 > system. It turns out that I get unexpected permission problems with this approach. > I use the same user name on both systems but on F14 I got userID 500 whereas on F16 > it became 1000. I wasn't aware of that but learned it the hard way. When I chowned > the permissions to 1000:1000 it worked on F16 but now not on F14. > > What is the proper way to fix this problem? I am tempted to reinstall F16 and force > my userID to 500, but the system warns me not to create userIDs < 1000. It is not > feasible to clone the partitions due to space constrains so I am not able to have > identical partitions with different permissions. > The "proper" way to fix this is to do it on the F14 system. Change your password entry to have uid:gid of 1000:1000. Make the change to the group file to change it to 1000 as well. Then, go to all the top of all partitions/directories owned by 500 and chown -R 1000:1000. In other words, make all the changes on the F14 side. I had to go through this process when I installed F16 since my RHELv4 system had me as 500:500 and I NFS mount my directories from there. Just took 5 or so minutes. Reinstalls are never needed to change a user's gid/uid. -- Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century. -- Dame Edna Everage -- 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 Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
