Re: [LUG] Changing User ID.

[Julian Hall via list <list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/04/17 15:32, mr meowski wrote:
> On 10/04/17 14:20, Julian Hall via list wrote:
> > Thanks Michael, unfortunately it didn't work as the laptop already has
> > the same UID.
> >
> > Cerce ~ # id julian
> > uid=1000(julian) gid=1000(julian)
> > groups=1000(julian),4(adm),24(cdrom),27(sudo),30(dip),46(plugdev),113(lpadmin),130(sambashare)
> >
> > The output is the same on both machines. I'm at a loss now to understand
> > why it thinks they are different users.
> It would help to have the result of "ls -alh /path/to/problem/files" but
> the short answer is to do:
>
> chown -R $USER:$USER /path/to/problem/files
>
> You might have fixed up your userid on the laptop to match now but the
> files presumably have inherited some 'dodgy' permission bits, especially
> if network storage was involved at some point (look out for the dreaded
> 'nfsuser' permissions for example), as was mentioned elsewhere.
>
> You do have actually have +w on the files that are opening readonly right?
>
> Cheers
Hi,

You've probably seen my reply to Peter by now, but here's the answer to 
your questions;

Cerce ~ # ls -alh /media/julian/HERA/Finances/Swalec
total 724K
drwxrwxrwx 11   1026 users  4.0K Apr 10  2017 .
drwxrwxrwx  9   1026 users  4.0K Aug  1  2016 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 julian julian 203K Jan  5 21:20 170105E.pdf
-rw-r--r--  1 julian julian 121K Jan  5 21:21 170105G.pdf
-rw-r--r--  1 julian julian 203K Mar 22 21:55 170322E.pdf
-rw-r--r--  1 julian julian 120K Mar 22 21:56 170322G.pdf
drwxr-xr-x  2 julian julian 4.0K Jan  3  2016 2011
drwxr-xr-x  3 julian julian 4.0K Jul 25  2016 2012
drwxr-xr-x  3 julian julian 4.0K Jul 25  2016 2013
drwxr-xr-x  2 julian julian 4.0K Apr  1  2016 2014
drwxr-xr-x  3 julian julian 4.0K Jul 25  2016 2015
drwxr-xr-x  2 julian julian 4.0K Jan  4 16:39 2016
drwxrwxrwx  2 root   users  4.0K Jul 25  2016 @eaDir
drwxr-xr-x  2 julian julian 4.0K Jan  4 16:40 FIT
-rw-r--r--  1 julian julian   76 Apr 10  2017 .~lock.Untitled1.ods#
-rw-r--r--  1 julian julian  22K Mar  6 01:11 Solar Production 2017.xls
drwxr-xr-x  2 julian julian 4.0K Apr 10 16:07 Spreadsheets
-rw-r--r--  1 julian julian    0 Apr 10  2017 Untitled1.ods

Cerce ~ # /media/julian/HERA/Finances/Swalec - hasn't worked either. 
You'll probably notice the lock file for Untitled1.ods.. OO crashed.. I 
deleted both as they were only test files. Solar Production 2017.xls 
still only opens as Read Only.

Cheers,

Julian

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