On Saturday, December 24, 2011 12:55:49 PM Mark Wendt (Contractor) did opine:
> On 12/24/2011 9:05 AM, gene heskett wrote: > >>> 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 > > No access to the root account? > Exactly. > Mark > 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> stab_val(stab)->str_nok = 1; /* what a wonderful hack! */ -- Larry Wall in stab.c from the perl source code ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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