After installing F17 I lost access to a specific directory of my external disk

[Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak]

On 05/30/2012 12:24 PM, Jonathan Allen wrote:
>> The reason I'm asking is that Fedora recently changed from starting
>> user ID numbers with 500 to 1000, and there's a chance you might
>> have been bit by it.
>
> Where can I configure this?  We have a network with a variety of versions
> of Fedora, and all our user IDs (and on backup CDs and DVDs) start from 200.
> It's kind of annoying having to click 'other' before beibg able to log in.

/etc/login.defs

See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/1000SystemAccounts

You might want to change your users over to the new scheme. This script 
will help:

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2012-January/412293.html


- Mike