From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 2 22:04:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA28354 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 22:04:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from abc.xyz.net (froggy.anchorage.ptialaska.net [208.151.119.238]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA28343 for ; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 22:04:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from groggy@iname.com) From: groggy@iname.com Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by abc.xyz.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA00667; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 21:04:38 -0800 (AKDT) (envelope-from groggy@iname.com) Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 21:04:38 -0800 (AKDT) X-Sender: abc@abc.xyz.net To: CyberPsychotic cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ownership funnies. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 3 Oct 1998, CyberPsychotic wrote: > I checked this out also. it's also correct. ig. user1 has gid 1001, and > user2 -- 1000.( I guess I pointed it out in my original message). > > The weird thing now, is that homedir group owner gets changed to user2 > (for user1) when he logs in.. what may cause it? just "rmuser" both users. then use "adduser" to add them again. it gives you a default group the same as the owner. i never have had these problems. i'm not expert enough to tell you what causes your problem, but i can say that a fresh install, followed by "adduser" should fix it. (the MicroShaft way ;) adduser is in perl, and you may want to read it to see what's actually involved. also, see /etc/group in addition to vipw. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message