On Sunday 30 November 2003 08:08 am, Derek Jennings wrote: > 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
derek, You hit the nail on the head! Long, long time ago when I first installed MDK, I set up a second user for my wife. However, she wanted nothing to to with linux. Since then, it was necessary to reinstall linux (no reformatting) and I only created one user. Now that our windows half is down, waiting on a new modem, she thinks linux might me OK for getting her mail. So, I used userdrake to set up a second user by the same original name; and I thought the home directory was just created then. Wrong. It was the old one from before with a UID=502 (as expected since done on an install). Anyway, I just trashed the directory and made a new user using userdrake. It used UID= 500. All is well. I do feel that the different numbering schems should be cleared up in the next release. Thanks, mike
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
