Bug 99562
Summary: | Installer does not correctly change ownership of files in /home | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux Beta | Reporter: | Michael McCabe <mccabemt> |
Component: | firstboot | Assignee: | Brent Fox <bfox> |
Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | beta1 | CC: | rngadam |
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Hardware: | i386 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2003-09-10 21:10:06 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description
Michael McCabe
2003-07-21 20:58:29 UTC
I'm trying to understand...you did a new install on a system that already had a version of Linux on it. You had a /home partition that you did not reformat, and you created a user in firstboot who already had a home directory in /home. Is that right? Yes when I created the user in firstboot it did not change the ownership of the user's home directory. Did you not add the users back in the same order that they were originally created in? Closing as 'notabug'. I don't think that either firstboot or the installer should ever be changing ownership of files. *** Bug 124211 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Why shouldn't firstboot change the ownership of files? This leads to an error when the desktop environment comes up!! Why not do this at firstboot, when a user is added: 1) check if ownership of /home/user is user:user 2) if not same, popup dialog: "Your newly added user home directory already exist and has ownership different then user:user. This will prevent the desktop environment from starting correctly. Do you want to changes those permissions for the directory and subdirectories? [Change] [Keep as same]" |