Ubuntu
ubiquity package

User's custom-mounted home directory owned by root

Bug #57816 reported by SigmaX
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Bug Description

To Reproduce on Breezy:
Install Ubuntu as usual, mounting /home/$user/ on a seperate partition.

After installation /home/$user/ will be owned by root, and sudo must be used to chown/chgrp the directory.

Creating of users, of course, happens after the designation of mounts points. The installer mkdirs /home/$user during partitioning, and then $user is created later. This results in a non-$user-accessible home directory. The installer's user creation process should offer to automatically chown/chgrp the directory if it detects a conflict.

SigmaX

Tags: breezy
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Micah Cowan (micahcowan) wrote :

Breezy Badger is of course no longer a supported release; however, I doubt that this behavior has changed.

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Bryan Quigley (bryanquigley) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Can you try with latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

Micah happens to be incorrect in this case :-)

Thanks for your report. This is also bug 16640, and is fixed in Ubuntu 6.06.

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