Cannot log in user on new FC6 install

[Mark Haney]

Dotan Cohen wrote:
> I've just replaced Kubuntu with FC6 on my desktop machine: 1.3 gHz
> Duron processor with 1GB RAM. My /home partition from Kubuntu was not
> formated, / was. I used the same username on both machines. When I try
> to log in, I get a message that permision is denied, and that the
> system cannot create ~/.gnome2 directory. The /home/user directory is
> set to permissions 644 and both the group and owner are 'user', so I
> don't see why it can't create the directory. When I log into the
> console as root, I can cd into /home/user. However, when I log in as
> user I as put into / and I cannot cd into /home/user.
>
> What must I do?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Dotan Cohen
>
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Just off the top of my head it sounds like the username may be the same 
but I bet the UID isn't the same,  which is what really matters.  If you 
know the UID of the old username in Kubuntu, you can either change your 
new username in /etc/passwd to the same uid or change the uid in /home 
to match the new uid of the username.  Got all that?  :)


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Mark Haney
Sr. Systems Administrator	
ERC Broadband