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odegard
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 Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 1:34 pm Post subject: Wrong user group |
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Ok, this is very embarrassing! I just realised that when I made my non-root user (a few days ago after a reinstall) I made some mistake. I'm not in the user group, rather, I'm in my own group 
It looks like this:
odegard:odegard
instead of
odegard:users
How can I fix this? I guess it's something simple, like modify my existing user, then chown -R odegard:users * in my home-dir, but I'd like some input anyway. (I must've been pretty tired) |
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moocha
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| Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 2:32 pm Post subject: |
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As root, do the following:
First fix the permissions on your home directory via | Code: | | find ~odegard -group odegard -exec chgrp users \{\} \; |
then either edit /etc/group manually (errorprone, watch for syntax errors) or remove yourself from the old group and add yourself to the new group via | Code: | gpasswd -d odegard odegard
gpasswd -a odegard users |
Log off all of odegard's sessions, and if you're running X stop and restart xdm (or just reboot).
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odegard
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| Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 3:25 pm Post subject: |
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Great, thanks  |
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moocha
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| Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 3:26 pm Post subject: |
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Most welcome.
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Paapaa
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| Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 6:01 pm Post subject: Re: Wrong user group |
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| odegard wrote: | Ok, this is very embarrassing! I just realised that when I made my non-root user (a few days ago after a reinstall) I made some mistake. I'm not in the user group, rather, I'm in my own group
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I don't think you did any mistake. This is the default behaviour (or a bug?): there will be a group called "username" and "username" will get added to it. See this:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-483035-highlight-.html
As you can see, the home directory will have "username" as the group. |
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odegard
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| Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2006 9:41 am Post subject: |
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| Hm, thanks, so I didn't do anything stupid afterall. I did what moocha proposed and will consider the state of things later |
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