On 08/03/07, Mark Haney <mhaney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dotan Cohen wrote: > I've just replaced Kubuntu with FC6 on my desktop machine: 1.3 gHz > Duron processor with 1GB RAM. My /home partition from Kubuntu was not > formated, / was. I used the same username on both machines. When I try > to log in, I get a message that permision is denied, and that the > system cannot create ~/.gnome2 directory. The /home/user directory is > set to permissions 644 and both the group and owner are 'user', so I > don't see why it can't create the directory. When I log into the > console as root, I can cd into /home/user. However, when I log in as > user I as put into / and I cannot cd into /home/user. > > What must I do? > > Thanks in advance. > > Dotan Cohen > > http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/artist_albums/451/sixpence_none_the_richer.html > > > http://what-is-what.com/what_is/404.html > Just off the top of my head it sounds like the username may be the same but I bet the UID isn't the same, which is what really matters. If you know the UID of the old username in Kubuntu, you can either change your new username in /etc/passwd to the same uid or change the uid in /home to match the new uid of the username. Got all that? :)
Thanks, Mark. I think that [k]Ubuntu user uid's starting with 1000, whereas RH uses uid's starting with 500. So wha you say sounds logical. As I intend on staying with FC, I'd like to keep the uid 500. How can I change the uid in /home to 500? Is it a simple "chown 500 /home/user"? I'm asking before I try to prevent myself from doing damage. Thanks. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com/what_is/eula.html http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/artist_albums/189/everlast.html
