Bug 56182 - incorrect mount point permissions in /home after installation
Summary: incorrect mount point permissions in /home after installation
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: anaconda
Version: 7.2
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Brent Fox
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-11-13 17:27 UTC by Need Real Name
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:38 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-11-13 17:27:06 UTC
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Description Need Real Name 2001-11-13 17:27:01 UTC 
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Description of problem:
Fresh install of Redhat 7.2.  My user account is on a separate partition,
so I selected to mount it on /home/username.  After installation I could
not login to X windows.  As it turns out, the mountpoint of /home/username
was owned by root making it so the .Xauthority file couldn't be written.

The real problem is that this mount point needs to be owned by "username"
since it is my home directory.  Perhaps the installation program, during a
final step, should make sure that everyone's home directory is owned by the
right username.

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How reproducible:
Didn't try


Additional info:
Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2001-11-16 22:57:28 UTC 
Nope, this is purely a local configuration issue and impossible to "fix"
correctly for all cases.
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