[nmglug] messed up permissions!

[Brian O'Keefe]

On Monday 10 April 2006 10:54 pm, Gary Sandine wrote:
Thanks Gary!
I assume then if I am logged into Ubuntu as root I would run:
chown root /home
In response to your post of "I would also revert /home to its usual state (I 
think I saw it owned by OS user brianokeefe in an earlier e-mail):"
> Brian,
>
> On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 20:28 -0600, Brian O'Keefe wrote:
> > On Monday 10 April 2006 8:02 pm, Brian O'Keefe wrote:
> > I read my message and I want to clarify "My OS X ID is "501" so I didn't
> > know how or if I should change it." I mean if I need to change the
> > command, specifically the "1000" to "501" if I run it logged into Ubuntu.
> > If I should just run them just as you wrote below in OSX then that is
> > simplest.
>
> Owner and group of files and directories is really numeric.  You can do
> this in OS X:
>
> sudo chown -R 1000 /volumes/Untitled/home/brianokeefe
>
> or you can do this in Unbuntu (as root):
>
> chown -R 1000 /home/brianokeefe
>
> or this in Ubuntu (as root, assuming your user name is brianokeefe in
> Ubuntu):
>
> chown -R brianokeefe /home/brianokeefe
>
> Any will have the desired effect.  It's fine to have UID 501 in OS X and
> UID 1000 in Ubuntu.  I'd leave it that way...