New installation Jaunty constant permissions problems

[John L Vifian]

On Tuesday 19 May 2009 9:44:03 am steven vollom wrote:

> I just installed Jaunty fresh again.  I changed all my mounting points
> putting all partitions in the /home partition excepting root and swap.  I
> did perhaps make a mistake by mounting my /home parition as /home/steven
> and believe that may be the reason I am having permissions problems.

Could you be more specific about what sort of permission problems you are 
having?

If a file has the wrong owner or group what are the current owner and group?  
Is it root? Is it a number?

John Vifian
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