2009/5/25 Lucy <lucybrid...@gmail.com>: > 2009/5/20 Neil Greenwood <neil.greenwood....@gmail.com>: >> 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 confuse you >> even more!). > > FWIW, chown won't change the group by default. e.g > > chown -R fred /home/bob > > Will change the ownership of all bob's files to fred, but not the group. > Whereas > > chown -R fred:fred /home/bob > > or, as a shortcut: > > chown -R fred: /home/bob > > Will change both the owner and the groups. > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ >
Lucy, Thanks for clarifying. That's what I'd said in my head, but re-reading it I wasn't as clear as I wanted to be. :-) Cofion, Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
