Cannot log in user on new FC6 install

[David G. Miller]

"Dotan Cohen" <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 08/03/07, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com> wrote:
>   
>> > Dotan, you need to change it recursively, so you add -R into the command.
>> >
>> > Anne
>> >
>>     
>
> Thanks, Anne, that's what I did.
>
> It's nice to have the desktop back on Fedora. Kubuntu is a decent
> distro, but it tries too hard to isolate the user from what is
> happening.
>
> Dotan Cohen
>
>   
If you scatter files elsewhere (e.g., /tmp, /var/spool/mail, ...) you 
may want to fire off something like:

find / -uid=700 -exec chown UserName {} \; -print

and

find / -gid=700 -exec chgrp UserGroup {} \; -print

Just to find all the files you didn't know were out there that also need 
to have their UID and GID fixed.  -R is great for blasting everything 
but things like mail files are owned by the user but with mail as the 
group and you only want to change the file that's owned by the specific 
user.

Cheers,
Dave

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