Cannot log in user on new FC6 install

[Dotan Cohen]

On 08/03/07, David G. Miller <dave at davenjudy.org> wrote:
> 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
>
> --
> Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
> -- Ambrose Bierce
>

Thanks for the tip, Dave. I only save the /home partition when
distro-hopping, and even then I erase all the hidden files (as those
are mostly config files). I only back up critical things like
~/.kde/share/apps/kmail and the like.

Dotan Cohen

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