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Re: my account & group code



On Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 09:27:33AM -0700, Rodney D. Myers wrote:
> My new debian system is running, fairly well. The most glaring situation
> right now is my account.
> 
> Since I have it nfs mounted to my redhat box, I have both accounts set
> to rodney:rodney [500:500]. I had to edit the /etc/group file to
> achieve this.
> 
> The 'problem'? 
> 
> Whenever I create a file and/or directory instead of rodney:rodney, I
> get rodney:1000, which was/is the default debian setup.

Have a look at /etc/passwd. The primary group is given there, and is
numeric. It is probably still 1000

Frank

> I've edited the /etc/group file, logged off, logged back on, and
> rebooted, trying to get this behaviour to change. So far it has not
> affected this behaviour.
> 
> I've been reading "Running Linux", but it mentions the steps I have
> already taken.
> 
> Any tips or suggestions?
> 
> Thanks
> 
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> Rodney D. Myers <rdmyers@pe.net>
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