Bug 91441
| Summary: | Owner and Group issues after account creation | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Crawford Rainwater <crawford.rainwater> |
| Component: | redhat-config-users | Assignee: | Brent Fox <bfox> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 9 | CC: | crawford.rainwater |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2003-05-22 20:27:45 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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I'm not sure I understand what you mean. Are you saying that you created a user and then the owner and group of that user's home directory is root? Correct (reference to comment trying to understand the complaint). Additional, all the hidden files were also owned and grouped with "root" as well. Also tried (with Ralph Rodriguez here) to chattr the /home/"user" directory as well, cannot access it as well. Hmm, that is not the behavior that I see on any of my test machines. When I create user 'foo' with either redhat-config-users or useradd, the owner and the group for /home/foo is 'foo' for the owner and 'foo' for the group. Same for all the files inside the /home/foo directory. I can't explain how you could be seeing behavior different from that. I think I might see a possible issue. What is the file system on the test machines? The /home directory I noticed is vfat for this machine where I noticed the error. Works on a different machine where /home is ext3. All my machines are ext3. Making /home a vfat partition is a supported operation. The main reason being that the vfat filesystem doesn't understand anything about file permissions. So that would explain the whole issue. In fact, the installer prevents you from trying to make /usr be a vfat partition. When I try to make a /usr partition be vfat, an error dialog appears and says "This mount point must be on a linux file system." Closing as 'notabug'. |
Description of problem: While in the RH 133 class, added a few users, noticed that the owner and group by default was "root" (for both user and group). Tried to change the ownership and group, response was Operation not permitted. Tried commands independent of the GUI redhat-config-users using "useradd" and "adduser", same results. Suspect the GUI is functioning properly, this is more at the actual used command level. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): RedHat 9.0, Kernel 2.4.20-13.9 #1, all recent updates. How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: