When you install Ubuntu if there is a directory with the same name of the user you are creating, that directory will be chowned to the new uid, so that if that directory was created with i.e. Fedora you will be the owner of your file. However if there are other directories under /home I guess it is right to keep the original permissions. However you have right, there could be problems with other drives. But I don't think that chown all files and directories to the user you create is a good thing. If the previous system had two or more user, chown all to the same user is not a good approach. Maybe Ubiquity should have a "user merge" function that should let you automatically change permissions (ie files owned by 500 should be chowned to 1000, 501 to 1001 etc). Or maybe it should check the content of existing /home and ask if it should create the same users (with the same id).
I.e. /home contains: Popeye 500:500 Miky 501:501 Then Ubiquity should ask "I've found directories Popeye and Miky in /home. Should I create this users?". If I reply yes it shold create users Popeye and Miky with the same uid. Every file in other disk will not need to be chowned. -- chown all local drives to current user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/388943 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
