Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 08:03:11 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD Message-ID: <20130125080311.d794da70.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <1359076287.2155.18.camel@precise> References: <1358988080.4855.5.camel@precise> <op.wreshnxpqhadp0@freebsd> <5101B141.2090909@gmail.com> <1359076287.2155.18.camel@precise>
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On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 02:11:27 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> Hi all, hi Joshua,
>
> On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 16:10 -0600, Joshua Isom wrote:
> > find / -uid 1001 -exec chown 1000 '{}' \;
> > find / -gid 1001 -exec chown :1000 '{}' \;
>
> I made one mistake, when I run "find / -gid 1001 -exec chown :1000 '{}'
> \;" for the fist time, I did it without the ":". Later I run it without
> the typo.
>
> There's a serious problem now, rocketmouse still is 1001.
You should have been reading my advice about changing the
UID:GID in detail. :-)
What you seem to be missing is a rebuild of the database
that reflects the content of the password files (where you
have properly made the changes 1001 -> 1000 in /etc/passwd,
/etc/master.passwd and /etc/group).
The command you're searching for is pwd_mkdb.
> .login_conf was '1000 1001', after I "chown 1001" it, to start X as
> user, it became 'rocketmouse 1001', the user rocketmouse still can't run
> a X session anymore.
UIDs and GIDs should match here. All files belonging to rocketmouse
should be 1000:1000 _and_ the name "rocketmouse" should be
associated to those numerical values (see files mentioned
above).
> After rebooting this is the output I get:
Rebooting is _not_ the way to make a probem magically
go away. :-)
> # id rocketmouse
> uid=1001(rocketmouse) gid=1001 groups=1001,0(wheel)
This means the change of 1001 -> 1000 has not been fully done,
in _all_ involved files.
> # ls -hAl /home/ | grep rocketmouse
> drwxr-xr-x 28 1000 rocketmouse 1.5k Jan 24 18:14 rocketmouse
Here, on "file system level", the UID has been changed to 1000
properly, but this UID still doesn't have a matching "name".
> # grep 100 /etc/group
> rocketmouse:*:1000:
> musicpd:*:1002:
>
> # grep 100 /etc/passwd
> rocketmouse:*:1000:1000:Ralf:/home/rocketmouse:/bin/sh
> musicpd:*:1002:1002:Music Player Daemon:/home/musicpd:/usr/sbin/nologin
>
> # grep 100 /etc/master.passwd
> rocketmouse:$1$3mMkzcfl
> $VuryrlzFZ92LmaC6cUOa/.:1000:1000::0:0:Ralf:/home/rocketmouse:/bin/sh
> musicpd:*LOCKED**:1002:1002:daemon:0:0:Music Player
> Daemon:/home/musicpd:/usr/sbin/nologin
All correct.
But pwd.db and spwd.db (the password databases with encrypted
content) don't reflect those informations!
> I repeated both find-chown several times and rebooted, nothing changed,
> it doesn't list any files anymore.
No, repeating what has already been done properly and then
rebooting is, as I said, not a way to make problems magically
go away. I don't know a setting where this should work... :-)
So here's what you need to do: Read "man pwd_mkdb" and rebuild
the databases.
If you would have used the "vipw" command to make the change
to the passwd (plain text) files, it would have called pwd_mkdb
after the change. But don't worry: Knowing those "low level hacks"
can be helpful in some worst-case scenario. :-)
--
Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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