On Tue, 06 Jul 2004 20:08:36 -0600 Glenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 06 July 2004 12:23, hackhound wrote: > > I had to reinstall ML10 due to hard drive crash over the weekend. Now > > I am experiencing tighter security than I used to when it comes to > > browsing directories in Konqueror or from the console. Previously I > > was able to see all directories in Konqueror from my user account. > > Some could not be accessed, and they had a little padlock icon to > > indicate so. Now Knoqueror will only allow me to access my home > > directory. I have no clue what I need to modify in my user account to > > regain these rights. > > > > Thanks much, > > Hackhound > > I had this happen to me once, and found that the permissions for a ton > of files changed from my username to the numeric userid (and the wrong > one at that). Since the userid was "502" (this was a while ago. Could > have been 501, instead), instead of "glenn", I was refused access. All > of the affected files had the lock icon. I used Konqueror as root to > change them to "glenn", and all was well again. >
I frequently re-install due to making stupid experimental mistakes, and almost always forget the order in which I assigned my user accounts (7 of them) in the previous install and the UID/GID pairs get messed up as a result. I have my /home and /usr/local on their own partitions, and they are not formatted during the installation There is a easy fix for this and it's worth having this little script around. Just run the following script from /home as root: ==== cut here === # fixusers - fix user uids and gids $ cd /home $ for U in * ; do echo $U ; chown -R $U:$U $U ; done ==== cut here === It returns a list of the user directories as it progresses and takes around 30 seconds on my /home with around 8gig of data. Cheers John (NZ)
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