On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Dan Furtney wrote: > This is a bit off topic but the knowledege seems to be here so what the > heck. When I did the Deb install I used the existing /home and swap > areas from a RedHat installation residing on the same disk. I thought I > would be able to use my /home/dan directory in Debian or RedHat. When I > used adduser to create the account under Debian It recognized that the > /home/dan directory existed and didn't overwrite it. The problem is that > I don't have permissions for the directory from the debian account. The > RedHat end is still fine. How should this be done? TIA
You need to make sure the UID and GID (numerical) are the same under both distributions. Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
