Fresh install Fedora 10 X86_64 problems

[Jim]

Richard Shaw wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Jim <mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>   
>> Jeff Voskamp wrote:
>>     
>>> Jim wrote:
>>>       
>>>> m wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> Jim wrote:
>>>>>           
>>>>>> Freash install of Fedora 10 X86_64 / KDE4
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I kept /home directories intact with users from Fedora 8 install.
>>>>>> I use the exact names and passwords from old Fedora 8 install.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm getting error message when I try to log into  All, Users  home
>>>>>> directories;
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "Could not start Kstartupconfig4,  Check your install:"
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I can log into 'root' without any problems.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>             
>>>>> Root does not live in /home or did you keep root's home also? I wouldn't
>>>>> have thought something like you are describing would work considering that
>>>>> many small things and probably large things too have probably changed from
>>>>> f8 to f10. Then there is the other major thing to consider: that KDE4 is
>>>>> still a work in progress as far as I know. Maybe removing the desktop
>>>>> settings files from the users home directories will do the trick. Just
>>>>> remember to keep good backups.
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> The 'root' is in /root not /home.
>>>> How do you change owners:groups,  For instance, bob:bob  to george:george
>>>> , in the whole user directory.
>>>>
>>>> Is the command  chown *.* bob:bob  george:george  ??
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> cd /home
>>> for x in *; do
>>> chown -R $x:$x $x
>>> done
>>>
>>>       
>> That doesn't seem to work for what I'm doing.
>>
>> What I'm trying to do is change all directories/files in a   /home/user,
>> from one owner/group to another owner/group.
>>
>> When I installed FC10, fresh install and format the /  partition and left
>> the /home partition from the old fedora 8 install
>> in place.
>> FC10 for some reason change all the directories/files to another user on box
>> into a  /home/user.
>> I know this sounds confusing but the point,  /home/molly has the wrong
>> owner/group on her files.  I have got to get them back to molly:molly in
>> /home/molly.
>>     
>
> You probably did not create the users in the same order as you did in
> for F8 install so your UID (User IDs) and GID (Group IDs) don't match.
> As long as you don't have a lot of users just fix it by hand.
>
> As root:
>
> cd /home/molly
> chown -R molly:molly *
>
> cd /home/<next user>
> chown -R <next user>:<nextuser> *
>
> etc...
>
> Richard
>
>   
How would i write down sequence of each USER, so this won't happen next 
time I upgrade this  Box ??