How to give permission to /home partition

Micro420 · 05-08-2005, 01:45 PM

I did an installation of Mandriva 10.2 and saved my /home partition before upgrading. Mandriva notices that there is a /home partition, but I am unable to read or write to it because it says that I do not have permission to write to that /home partition. I've had this happen before when I upgraded to Mandrake 9.2 and I can't find my thread anymore. I have to do something funky like chmod ### something or chown ### something.

bigrigdriver · 05-08-2005, 02:24 PM

chown <username> <directoryname> sets ownership to <username>.

chmod u +rwx gives user the read-write-execute permissions. In this case, execute means permission to cd into the directory.

PS: you may have to su to root in order to issue these commands.

camelrider · 05-09-2005, 04:10 AM

A few years ago when switching distros I had a similar problem. It turned out that the old distro had assigned my user uid:gid as 500:500 while the new distro used 501:501. Changing the entry in /etc/passwd fixed it.

A recursive chown may also fix the problem, but there may be files in there that have been setup for another group such as "audio" to access.

Micro420 · 05-09-2005, 05:49 PM

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Originally posted by camelrider
A few years ago when switching distros I had a similar problem. It turned out that the old distro had assigned my user uid:gid as 500:500 while the new distro used 501:501. Changing the entry in /etc/passwd fixed it.

A recursive chown may also fix the problem, but there may be files in there that have been setup for another group such as "audio" to access.

Camel - how do you figure out what your old uid:gid was? My current one now is 500:500