HD permissions stay put

[JD]

On 07/03/2011 11:09 AM, Johan Scheepers wrote:
> On 03/07/2011 20:01, JD wrote:
>> 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?
>>
> Machine one..johan 1000:1000
> Machine two ..johan 500:500
>
OK! now we are getting somewhere.
Is your same home account mounted by both machines? (I assume that it is).

if you
ls -ld $HOME

and you get   johan   johan
for UID and GID ownership, then on that
machine, your home dir's UID and GID numbers
match the numbers in the password file and the group file.

If not, then your home directory and it's contents
belong to the user whose UI and GID match the password
and group files in /etc.

On the machine that displays numbers, you need
to become root and modify the uid and gid of user johan.

If you cannot become root, then you can have some
more work to do:

1. On the machine where you CAN become root, then become root, and
execute  /usr/bin/system-config-users
  and in the GUI modify the UID and GID of user johan to match the 
numbers on the other machine.
This means that after you finish the modification,
you have to be sure that the /etc/passwd and /etc/group have
the right numbers for UID and GID and they match the other machine.


2. as root, execute the command:
     chmod -R johan:johan ~johan

     On some versions of linux, the command takes the form
     chmod -R johan.johan ~johan

     On some other linux'es both variations work.