HD permissions stay put

[JD]

On 07/03/2011 10:55 AM, Petrus de Calguarium wrote:
> 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.
> I had that, too, a long time ago. It came from experimenting with Debian,
> Ubunto and others and using the same username on those other non-Fedora
> systems. What I did was not really a solution. Since I am a confirmed
> Fedoristo, I simply do not mount my home/Documents partition to alien systems.
>
Johan,
can you check /etc/passwd to see if the number of your uid belongs to 
user johan
and check /etc/group to see if there is a group named johan and what 
it's gid is?