On 06/07/2012 08:20 PM, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > On 07/06/12 01:27, Ed Greshko wrote: >> 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. >> > I thought of this at the very beginning but I never found out how to change userID > from 500 to 1000. Please explain how to do that. > OK.... Let's say that your user name on the F14 system is olsen..... The entry in /etc/passwd is probably olsen:x:500:500:Erik olsen:/home/olsen:/bin/bash and /etc/group is probably olsen:x:500: Just change those to... olsen:x:1000:1000:Erik olsen:/home/olsen:/bin/bash and olsen:x:1000: And then.... chown -R 1000:1000 /home/olsen along with any other directories or file systems that were previously owned by uid 500 gid 500. That's all... -- 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
