Is there a way I can see which UID a particle file belongs to? The odd thing is that the permissions seem to work just fine in the shell, it's just when running chrome it throws an error that looks like a permissions error. Maybe it's just a chrome issue?
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Liam Brown <liams.toas...@gmail.com> wrote: > ** > Steve's right. UIDs may need to match with corresponding user names across > systems, or you can have permissions problems. If the numbers don't match > from one system to another, there's no guarantee that the files belonging to > "Matt" (UID 500) on one system will belong to "Matt" (UID 1000) on another > system. You can chgrp with a chown command, too; just run something like > this: "chown [options] user.group /path". > > > > On 07/04/2011 09:25 AM, Steve Meyers wrote: > > On 7/4/11 9:20 AM, Matthew Gardner wrote: > > There's only one user, and that's me. If the filesystem previously had > a user matt which owned /home/matt, and I create a user with username > matt, will that set up the permissions right? > > Not necessarily. Didn't they change from 500 as first UID to 1000 as > first UID with the latest Fedora? Or was that some other distro? > > Anyway, just do "chown -R matt /home/matt" and that should take care of > it. If you can figure out what your default group is, do a chgrp as well. > -------------------- > BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ > > The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their > author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > > > > -- > *Liam Brown,* > Web Dude. > > -------------------- > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their > author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list >
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