On Sunday 30 Nov 2003 12:28 pm, JoeHill wrote: > On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 22:35:43 -0500 > > Mike Adolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I added a second user using userdrake. When I tried to logon to the new > > account. I get "No Write Permission on HOME " KDE can't start. SO, > > although the new home has the same permissions as my home, I change the > > permission to 777 on new HOME. Tried to log on again (without > > rebooting), and it worked. I thought, OK problem solved. Wrong! After I > > rebooted, it got the same error, THE PERMISSONS WERE SET BACK TO ORIGINAL > > VALUES!! I repeated the chmod again just to make sure I wasn't nuts. I > > wasn't. > > > > I opened userdrake and it had the userid = 500 and groupid = 500. BUT > > doing an > > > > ls -l on /home shows that the new home has user and group both 502 ???? > > BTW, were the two usernames the same? I've never tried to create two users > with the same name, I'm not sure how the system would react with that. I've > certainly never run into this problem creating a new user with a > *different* name before.
I'm coming in a bit late here, but can I assume the Original Poster reinstalled their system without reformatting their /home? When you do that it is important to add the users in precisely the same order or else the user will have a different UID/GID and will not own their own home directory. The installer will add users beginning with UID 501, but userdrake will add a user starting from UID 500 The solution is not to change the perms to 777, but to change the UID/GID on all the folders in /home derek -- ---------------------------------- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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