permissions

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 10:09 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>> roland wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I moved the homedirectories from one server to another.
>>> Somehow the permissons got mixed up.
>>> Is there anyway to check permissions?
>>> Sinds the transfer Firefox (3.0.1) does not anymore restore tabs and 
>>> doesn't show activ arrows, to go back and forward.
>>>
>>> Thanks for any help
>> Dumb question - are the user ID's and group ID's the same from one 
>> machine to the other? The number to name mappings in /etc/passwd and 
>> /etc/group? Linux uses the numbers, not the names to determine who 
>> owns the files/directory.
>>
>> Mikkel
> Well if you use the Fedora programs to create the users in the same
> order they probably will be. But in general the answer is no. You would
> have to set them to be the same on purpose.
> 
I know - I guess I didn't make it clear I was asking the OP if he 
had done it that way. Even creating them in the same order is not a 
guarantee. Not all systems start with the same UID, and the original 
system may have some users deleted. But there are ways around that. 
I have moved the necessary parts of /etc/passwd, /etc/group, 
/etc/shadow.

Mikkel
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