HD permissions stay put

[Joe Zeff]

On 07/03/2011 08:49 AM, Johan Scheepers wrote:
> 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 think you're slightly confused here.  What's changing isn't the 
permissions but the way the system reports the owner of the files.  The 
system tracks that by the numeric userid and converts that to a name 
when displaying the information, because that's easier for humans to 
understand.  Different distros start numbering normal users at different 
places and if your various installations use different numbering, 
they're going to think that files created in a different distro were 
created by a user they have no record of, so they can't display a name, 
only a number.  Using chown to change this will work, but as soon as you 
go back to the distro you were using when you created them, you'll have 
to do it again.  It's possible to set things so that your user has the 
same numeric userid in all of your installations, and if you do that, 
you'll have what you want.