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From: Dave Nebinger <dnebinger@××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] recreating my user accout woes
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 20:15:30
Message-Id: 00a401c59155$1dbe36e0$5f01010a@jnetlab.lcl
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] recreating my user accout woes by George Roberts
1 > geo@george /home $ ls -l george
2 > total 0
3 > drwxr-xr-x 2 george users 48 Jul 25 12:12 Desktop
4 > geo@george /home $
5 >
6 > geo@george /home $ ls -l geo
7 > total 0
8 > drwxr-xr-x 2 geo users 48 Jul 25 11:38 Desktop
9 > geo@george /home $
10
11 Just to be on the safe side I'd try:
12
13 # chown -R geo:users /home/geo
14 # chown -R george:users /home/george
15
16 Just to ensure that the permissions are cascading down correctly. The only
17 reason I'm suggesting this is that, by the sounds of things, you're trying
18 to recreate a new user using files from an old user.
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Re: [gentoo-user] recreating my user accout woes George Roberts <georoberts@×××××.com>