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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