Re: [LUG] Changing User ID.

[Julian Hall via list <list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/04/17 16:45, Julian Hall via list wrote:
> On 10/04/17 15:32, mr meowski wrote:
> > On 10/04/17 14:20, Julian Hall via list wrote:
> > > Thanks Michael, unfortunately it didn't work as the laptop already has
> > > the same UID.
> > >
> > > Cerce ~ # id julian
> > > uid=1000(julian) gid=1000(julian)
> > > groups=1000(julian),4(adm),24(cdrom),27(sudo),30(dip),46(plugdev),113(lpadmin),130(sambashare) 
> > >
> > >
> > > The output is the same on both machines. I'm at a loss now to 
> > > understand
> > > why it thinks they are different users.
> > It would help to have the result of "ls -alh /path/to/problem/files" but
> > the short answer is to do:
> >
> > chown -R $USER:$USER /path/to/problem/files
> >
> > You might have fixed up your userid on the laptop to match now but the
> > files presumably have inherited some 'dodgy' permission bits, especially
> > if network storage was involved at some point (look out for the dreaded
> > 'nfsuser' permissions for example), as was mentioned elsewhere.
> >
> > You do have actually have +w on the files that are opening readonly 
> > right?
> >
> > Cheers
> Hi,
>
> You've probably seen my reply to Peter by now, but here's the answer 
> to your questions;
Sorry, I hadn't realised Thunderbird pulled its trick of replying from 
my default address not the LUG registered one. Reply to Peter re-sent.

Julian

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