Re: chown????

["Steven Pierce" <steven_pierce powerinter net>]

You need to put in a command that wil create the home dir.  I had been using linuxconf to
do this.

Steven

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On 7/1/2000 at 12:50 PM sugarboy sb iinet net au wrote:

>hi
>
>chown uid.gid
>eg:
>	chown steven.steven
>
>should do it for you.
>
>actually, I thought that when you created a user iwth adduser that it
>creates this anyway? am I wrong?
>
>On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Steven Pierce wrote:
>
>>
>>
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>>
>> Good Evening,
>>
>> Ok, I have tried until I am about ready to pull out my hair.  While I was Root, I created a
>> directory for Steven.  This was /usr/home/steven.   If I do a ls -l on it, it gives me
>> dxxxxxxxxxxx  root root date time..etc...
>>
>> Well by doing a chown -c -R steven /usr/home/steven, I was able to change this to
>> dxxxxxxxxxxx 	steven 	root 	date time etc.  (note xxxxxxxxx not important at this time.  They are as they should be_)
>>
>> So the question is how do I change this so it is steven steven, or is that neccessary??
>>
>> When I change into the dir I get [steven grizzly~]$   Before it would tell me
>> steven grizzly /home/steven.  What did I do wrong.
>>
>> One last thing I did a chmod 4555 and it appears to have changed it to the sticky bit.
>> That I am not so worried about, or should I????
>>
>> Thank you for the help..
>>
>> Steven
>>
>>
>>
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