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On 17/07/2014 23:31, Dale wrote: |
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> Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>> On 17/07/2014 21:42, Dale wrote: |
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>>> Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>>>> On 16/07/2014 18:45, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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>>>>> easiest way to test: new user. Copy over config files until problem occurs. |
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>>>> <doh> |
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>>>> Yes of course, that's the best way. Didn't think of that |
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>>> I just did my KDE upgrade so I renamed the .kde4 directory. I logged |
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>>> in, set up enough that I could test things and then logged out. When I |
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>>> logged back in, it worked like it should. Let's see how long that lasts. |
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>>> Alan, make sure you change the permissions on those file. I have a test |
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>>> account that I rarely use as well. In the past, I had to change the |
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>>> owner from dale to dale2 which is my account names. Usually the group |
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>>> is the same so the owner is all that needs changing. |
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>> Why change the permissions? They must be rw for the user using them |
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>> which means chmod 6xx, the group being entirely irrelevant as it will |
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>> never be referenced. If the new user is doing the copy then they will be |
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>> owned by that new user anyway. "cp -a" will just always do the right |
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>> thing in this case :-) |
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> Well, I usually copy as root which leaves the permissions the same. |
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> Since you do it as user then you are right. |
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DO NOT DO THAT COPY AS ROOT. That's just needlessly |
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asking for trouble. |
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Do it as the destination user, as long as it can read the source user's |
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home dir it all works out fine. Group membership is usually sufficient |
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and the only case where it's an issue is if home dirs are set to |
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rwx------ or encrypted |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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