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carpenterguy
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 Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2012 4:16 pm Post subject: root owns user [solved] |
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Sorry for such a basic linux permission problem 
I had my /home inside of / Not a separate partition. I added another drive, made it one ext4 fs, edited fstab and added /home This all went fine.
When I rebooted, had a shiny new /home with no user, my old user was hidden I could not find it or my files.
So I changed the drive to a new /mnt/new and mounted it, moved my user /home/genfool to the new drive, changed fstab back to /home and now have a home with my user.
Now root owns user, and user can not login.
[/quote]gen-fool@joker /home $ ls -lg
total 24
drwxr-xr-x 37 gen-fool 4096 Apr 8 09:01 gen-fool
drwxr-xr-x 46 root 4096 Apr 7 17:53 genfool
drwx------ 2 root 16384 Apr 7 10:30 lost+found | Quote: |
My noob question is, I know how to change file permissions with chmod, but never ran into situation where root owned user ... have googled and is all about file permissions.
I tried chmod 755 /home/genfool and did not work.
2nd part is, what is a proper way to add /home after the install? my way just seems backwards.
I simply have never used a /home in the past, if anyone has suggestions, for my future use, would appreciate it. |
Last edited by carpenterguy on Sun Apr 08, 2012 4:57 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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i92guboj
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| Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2012 4:22 pm Post subject: |
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| The tool you need is "chown", look for the -R flag for recersive effects. |
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carpenterguy
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Thank you, chown was the tip I needed. Is now repaired and all is fine.
Is the first time I ever needed to use chown, I feel it was such a noob question and embarrassed to ask .... glad I did now  |
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i92guboj
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| carpenterguy wrote: | Thank you, chown was the tip I needed. Is now repaired and all is fine.
Is the first time I ever needed to use chown, I feel it was such a noob question and embarrassed to ask .... glad I did now |
We all had to learn that at some point (and probably in very similar circumstances). So, don't be ashamed. |
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