On Sun, 2004-03-28 at 16:05, .jareeN. wrote: > > The solution given to you is correct. Why the above is happening is that you need to > make yourself the owner of you home directory. Do this once in the home directory of > the distribution you have made the change and it will work. > > BYE
neeraj, you are right! i changed the UID and GID of the LL home directory on the mounted partition to match those of the LL user on the booted partition and distro . . . and it worked. ofcourse, when i then booted into Redhat8's partition, and tried logging in, the XDM screen was again hurled at me as the UID and GID of the existing user had been changed by fedora. so this time, i logged in as root under redhat8, reset the UID and GID, and again managed to log in successfully as LL. therefore, what i need to do is simple: set up a script on fedora that, *only* when i log in as user LL: 1) on logging-in, sets the UID and GID of the mounted partition to match those of LL of fedora. 2) on logging-out, resets the UID and GID of the mounted partition to match those of LL of Redhat8. so how do i do this? i can write two scripts, but where do i put them? as the scripts will be run by the action of the user LL logging in, a command like chown would require a root to do that for the other home directory, so how do i do this in the script? do i enter these scripts in rc.local? would want this change to happen irrespective of whether LL logs into runlevel 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5? please help :-) LL _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
