[Pan-users] Re: Permissions Re: Aaarrrgghhh! Whahoppena Terminal??

[Beartooth]

On Sat, 07 Mar 2009 11:34:40 -0500, Rinaldi J. Montessi wrote:
        [....] 
>>      Maybe I need to go to the fedora list, a/o my LUG, and start a
>> permissions thread -- if I can figure out how. Is it possible something
>> is wrong with the way my userid is set up??
> 
> I had this problem once and found the solution to be somewhat simple.
> 
> There are a couple of ways  to troubleshoot permission problems even
> though the username may be the same.  I'd recommend looking in each
> system's /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow to make sure your user information
> is the same on each system.
> 
> Case in point, when I created my username on my first install of
> slackware it gave me UID 500, whereas RH had given me UID 1000.  Thus,
> even though rinaldi owned all the files in ~/, with the wrong UID I
> couldn't access any of them.

        Well, starting just on this machine, the entry for btth in /etc/
shadow is some great 1 1/2 line string of gibberish, presumably 
encrypted; no indication even of UID, unless there's some easy way to 
decrypt it. /etc/passwd and system-config-users both show UID 500, if 
that means anything.

-- 
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.