No shift in adduser? not using my previous /home

odevans · 02-07-2006, 07:59 PM

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Originally Posted by MS3FGX

True, but he could have made a group called "rednovember" on SuSE and Slack, and put the permissions to /home/RedNovember to "rednovember:rednovember" and 770. so while the usernames would have been different, the two users could have been in a specific group and permissions would have worked as they should.

No way, man, that would've been too easy

What is interesting, though, is that SuSE /did/ allow him to create the user RedNovember (uppercase). I don't have a SuSE installation (tried it, but found it too slow after using Slack), perhaps RedNovember could tell us what version of shadow it uses (if it does).

MS3FGX · 02-07-2006, 08:45 PM

I have never used a Linux distro that allowed uppercase usernames either.

RedNovember · 02-08-2006, 06:40 AM

Actually, both Mepis and SuSE let me enter an uppercase username. They did warn me about it first, though. When I get home (posting this from school) I'll check my version of shadow.

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Granted, KDE is a bit messed up, but that is for another day.

Probably differences between SuSE and Slack

I figured as much, experiencing this when changing from MEPIS to SuSE. However, this is different, in that Kicker won't even load, just keeps giving me an error message. I can see some kicker buttons there (firefox, quicklaunch applet, no k menu) but since my kicker is transparent, I can't see that. I don't quite remember what the error message is, but it's something to the effect that kicker cannot load. Whenever I close this message, it pops back up again. Understandably I'm somewhat hesitant to replicate this, because it also messes up my SuSE (damn you shared config files!)