(Sorry if you get this twice Dave, I didn't reply to the list. Second time I've done that today... sigh...)
On Jan 5, 2008 6:54 AM, dave N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I used to run Fedora and now all the files on my data drives are uid 500 > and gid 500. > > As root I've set the permissions for the drive (loaded under /share/other) > to be owned by root but the group to be users. this didn't get recursively > filtered down. > > Now under Debian the same user name and password I'd previously had are > uid 1000 and gid 1000. Though I can access the files on the drive I can't do > anything with them except as root. > > How can I rectify this? chown -R 1000:1000? > > This'll cause problems with the lost+found as well as any .Trash folders, > should I then change the uids and gids back? > I'm not sure exactly what you're trying to accomplish. If you want everyone to have access to the drive you can do something like: # chown -R root:root /share/other # chmod -R o+rwX /share/other If you only want your user account to have access then something like: # chown -R youruser /share/other # chown root:root /share/other # chown root:root /share/other/lost+found -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Crazycomputers
