On Thursday 08 March 2007, Dotan Cohen wrote: > 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. > Dotan, you need to change it recursively, so you add -R into the command. Anne
