Re: [ubuntu-uk] Some advice - permissions

2009-05-26 Thread Neil Greenwood
2009/5/25 Lucy : > 2009/5/20 Neil Greenwood : >> If you create more than one user in each installation, you have to >> create them in the same order so that they get the same UIDs - if you >> don't, this is the only time you should have to use the chown/chgrp >> commands, although chown will change

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Some advice - permissions

2009-05-25 Thread Lucy
2009/5/20 Neil Greenwood : > If you create more than one user in each installation, you have to > create them in the same order so that they get the same UIDs - if you > don't, this is the only time you should have to use the chown/chgrp > commands, although chown will change group too (just to con

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Some advice - permissions

2009-05-20 Thread Neil Greenwood
2009/5/20 Paul Sutton : > regarding point B, if you create a new users then won't this cause > permission issues,  as say old system has > > /home/paul > > and the new install has /home/paul2 > > the files will still belong to paul, and will need to have ownership > changed (chown) and (chgrp) so y

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Some advice - permissions

2009-05-20 Thread Paul Sutton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthew Daubney wrote: > On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 11:01 +0100, Sean Miller wrote: >> Should have broadband again today, so going to download an ISO and >> endeavour to fix my broken Jaunty. >> >> Now, a week or so ago somebody said to me that to preserve