Re: [Gnewsense-dev] gnewsense 3.0 install

[Sam Geeraerts]

Op Sat, 24 Aug 2013 00:11:01 -0400
schreef dww <address@hidden>:

> I am willing to try and update the documentation.
> 
> Do you have any recommendation of how I could have avoided this
> problem in an upgrade from 2.3 to 3.0?  In this case I did not
> reformat the home directory and during the 3.0 install I used the
> same username.

Some options:

- chown to your new user (and group) id after installation, like you did
- set the old user/group id during installation (possible in expert
  mode, iirc)
- Edit /etc/passwd and /etc/group to replace the new ids with the old
  ones.