I've just done (yet another) reinstall and I'm getting things worked out by taking a different route. I'll provide a recap once I get it all done. Thanks to all for the input. On 4/21/09, Dazed_75 wrote: > This seems a quite painful process where one would have expected the install > process to work properly as long as his install specified the proper > partitioning and users and without formatting the existing /home which was a > separate partition. The only reason I can imagine for it not working is if > the install was not smart enough to associate the same uid and gid for the > user directories already in /home with the users it was creating in the new > /etc/passwd. > > Am I expecting too much? Is there a legitimate reason for not doing so? > > > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 7:53 PM, Lisa Kachold > wrote: > > > Looks like your /home partition was being equated as /hda7 - which makes > sense. > > > > umount /dev/hda7 > > mkdir /home > > mount -t ext3 (or whatever it is) /dev/hda7 /home > > df -k > > vi /etc/passwd > > ls -al ~joe > > ls -al ~pattie > > > > > > You can change the mount point via /etc/fstab > > You can change the users home via /etc/passwd > > Be sure to chown/chgrp all the files to their corresponding users > > > > cd ~joe | chown -R joe:joe * > > cd ~pattie | chown -R pattie:pattie * > > > > > > > > > > On 4/20/09, Josef Lowder wrote: > > > Thanks Craig. I can't imagine how this could have come about > > > as I know that hda7 was originally specified as just "/home" > > > > > > But I really appreciate your response and guidance. > > > > > > On 4/20/09, Craig White wrote: > > >> it appears that you have mounted /dev/hda7 as /home/joe rather than > > >> just /home > > >> > > >> if you haven't created anything else (i.e., users, in /home, you could > > >> probably just change the mount point in /etc/fstab and > > >> 'umount /home/joe' and 'mount -a' and everything would be fixed. You > > >> would of course want users named joe and patti and if you haven't > > >> already created them, you could figure out which uid number they had > > >> previously... > > >> > > >> ls -ldn /home/joe/* > > >> > > >> and their user & group numbers from your old system should be > displayed. > > >> > > >> Then you could create them again with a 'useradd' command like, > > >> > > >> useradd -u 501(or ??) -g 501(or ??) > > >> > > >> type 'useradd --help' for information. > > >> > > >> Craig > > >> > > >> > > >> -- > > >> This message has been scanned for viruses and > > >> dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > > >> believed to be clean. > > >> > > >> --------------------------------------------------- > > >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - > PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > > >> > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > >> > > >> > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - > PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > > > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > > > > > -- > > www.obnosis.com (503)754-4452 > > "Contradictions do not exist." A. Rand > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - > PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > > -- > Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - > PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss