How to properly re-establish users after a reinstall?

[Dazed_75]

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 <lisakachold at obnosis.com>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 <joe at actionline.com> 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 <craigwhite at azapple.com> 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
> >>
> >>
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