problem with mounted folder

texuser74 · 02-04-2008, 02:43 AM

Dear Users,

In my slackware12 server's home directory, I have these folders

Code:

drwx--x--x    2 linda    users        4096 Feb  4 14:47 linda/
drwx--x--x   21 irene    users        4096 Jan 31 17:27 irene/

When I mounted 'slackware12:/home /slackware12/home' on my new slackware machine 'linda', the mounted folder /slackware12/home on linda's station shows

Code:

drwx--x--x    2 1035     users        4096 Feb  4 14:47 linda/
drwx--x--x   21 irene    users        4096 Jan 31 17:27 irene/

I have problem with linda's folder showing as 1035 as user, I can't change the owner of this folder from 1035 to linda.

Please help.

gilead · 02-04-2008, 02:50 AM

Are you talking about 2 different boxes? If so, it sounds like the user id in /etc/passwd is different for the linda user on each box. chown should fix this - what syntax did you use when you tried it?

texuser74 · 02-04-2008, 02:59 AM

hi gilead, thanks for your reply

the user linda's password in both the boxes are same.

I tried 'chown linda linda' in linda's machine in root mode, but i get the following error

Quote:

chown: changing ownership of `linda': Operation not permitted

gilead · 02-04-2008, 03:02 AM

Not the password, the user id. Are you running chown as root (or with su or sudo)?

texuser74 · 02-04-2008, 03:06 AM

the user id are also same, in both the boxes its 'linda'

and i used 'su' for running chown

gilead · 02-04-2008, 03:19 AM

Sorry, I'm explaining myself badly. If you run the following command on each box, do you get the same output?

Code:

grep linda /etc/passwd | cut -d: -f3

As far as the permission error goes, are you running the chown command on the box where the folder actually exists (not where it is mounted to)?

texuser74 · 02-04-2008, 03:36 AM

when i run the command

Quote:

grep linda /etc/passwd | cut -d: -f3

the server returns '1039' and the linda returns '1028'

gilead · 02-04-2008, 03:47 AM

Is that a typo? In the earlier post, the user id 1035 was displayed instead of the user name linda. I'm assuming it is... The fastest way to change the displayed info, would be to use vipw to alter linda's user id to be 1035 instead of 1028.

There won't be a duplicate user id because of this, because if 1035 were already being used, a different user name would have been displayed.

texuser74 · 02-04-2008, 08:03 PM

Dear Steve, its working fine now, thanks for all your help.

gilead · 02-04-2008, 08:34 PM

No problem - glad you got it working