user # access?

[Robert Heller]

At Tue, 14 May 2019 19:37:23 -0700 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> Running Ubuntu 16.04 updated. I have a few disks from my older linux
> comps, even way back to Mandriva :-), and I'd like to check for some
> info on those disks. When I try to access them, I can't. Says owner is
> user# 501, etc and I don't have any permissions. Tried installing
> Nautilus-admin but that doesn't work either. How can I access my old
> disks via a GUI so I can easily see all and copy some if necessary?
> These will not be used to boot, so I don't mind altering those disks 
> if necessary. All have different users/passwords/OS if that makes a
> difference.

Well, you are not going to able to use a GUI out-of-the-box, unless you login 
to the GUI as root -- not something that is normally possible with an 
out-of-the-box install of Ubuntu (and is not something that is recomended even 
on a Linux distro with a real root login).

You are going to have do one of two things:

1: Use a shell command like:

sudo chown -R <your user id or username> /path/to/old/disk/home

This will make the disk readable.

OR

create additional usernames that have the sane UID as the files you want to 
look at.

> 
> Tried a few I knew were from Mandriva - looks like they all use 500+.
> Not good - I used MD for quite a while and have several
> disks. :-(( Liked it a lot at the time, though.
> 
> 
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> 

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