On Saturday, December 24, 2011 09:05:04 AM Mark Wendt (Contractor) did opine:
> On 12/23/2011 6:18 PM, gene heskett wrote: > > On Friday, December 23, 2011 06:11:28 PM Mark Cason did opine: > >> On 12/23/2011 01:47 PM, gene heskett wrote: > >> > >> Last login: Thu Dec 22 09:38:52 2011 from coyote.coyote.den > >> gene@shop:~$ sudo useradd -u 500 gene > >> > >> > >> to modify a user, you must use usermod: > >> sudo usermod -u 500 gene > >> > >> I haven't used usermod in a loooong time, so I don't know if you need > >> to change user, and group, for all of the files you own. > >> > >> sudo chown -R gene.gene /home/gene > > > > That has been done long ago Mark. The problem is that on pclos (this > > box) gene is the first user, with a userid of 500. On ubuntu, gene > > is also the first user 1000, so when user 500 tries to copy a file to > > /home/user=1000 on ubuntu, its 100% no permissions. > > > > Now if the copy utilities used the username, and it was the same $name > > on both machines, there is no clash. > > > > Cheers, Gene > > Change the user gene on the ubuntu machine to a uid:gid of 500:500. > > Mark And sudo quits working, so you can't fix anything else. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine? -- Larry Wall in <199711102149.naa16...@wall.org> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
