Re: can't login via gdm
> On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 07:00:38PM +0000, Morgan Read wrote:
>>> Starting that from / is horrifying. I would have started from
>>> /home,
>>
>> But, all recklessness aside - what would be the correct command to
>> achieve the end sought?
>
> I'm not quite sure what that "end" is. We were never given the
> whole picture. From what I was able to piece together from the
> original message, the OP had three user accounts on their system,
> with UIDs 1000, 1001 and 1002. They wanted to "+1" each UID, turning
> UID 1002 into UID 1003, and so on down the line. Why they wanted to
> do this was never stated.
Thank you very much Greg for your detailed reply - and my
apologies for not coming back to you sooner, but I've had a little
struggle getting myself back up and running over the past few days
or so.
The object of the exercise was to get my laptop a little more in
tune with my home server - I back up my two laptop user accounts
to the server (there's a guest account too); I started with one
admin user on my server but then needed user accounts to match my
laptop accounts - but, my admin account was at 1000 which is where
my first laptop user account was... The rest follows with a
predictable logic - except that I felt that having the admin
account on 1000 was aesthetically pleasing :)
> change only UID 1000 to UID 1003, leaving UIDs 1001 and 1002 alone.
guess that's aesthetics again - my personal account was my first
account, so that's where I prefer it in the pecking order...
> 6) If you're really paranoid, look for any other files owned by UID
> 1000 anywhere on the system: find / -user 1000 -ls If you do find
> any, deal with them manually.
Thank you - that does seem a little less reckless than my initial
approach...
I have a RAID on the server I back up to - I guess I'll do for it as
you suggest I do for the home directories.
Keep well.
--
Morgan Read
UNITED KINGDOM
Em: <email:mstuffATreadDOTorgDOTnz>
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