need to force correct permissions of new user's home directory

[Rob Morehouse III]

When installing ubuntu on a new computer with fat32 partitions, I set up the
partitions to be mounted under the folder /home/*username*/files/ now when
logging into my computer this seems to cause both KDE and Gnome to be incapable
of starting up, due to, I assume, the fact that this changes the permisions so
that the home/*username* folder is not able to be written to.

On a side note, after I chowned the home folder, KDE started fine, but Gnome's
half starting seemed to have left behind some bad configuration files that still
prevented running it, The only way I could easily fix it was to restart the
whole thing.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Yes, partman-target sets it up root:root 0755, I suspect. passwd.config will
probably need to fix this up.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

user-setup (1.1ubuntu2) dapper; urgency=low

  * Backport from trunk (closes: Malone #16640):
    - Fix up permissions of user's home directory in case a mount point was
      created underneath it by partman.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Mon, 15 May 2006 17:03:06 +0100

[Fallen (trevor-peter)]

I had the same issue although mine was on an ext3 partition setup under the partion manager. changed owner via console to get things working.