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macourtney7
Asked: 2017-03-02 10:21:52 +0800 CST

How to get "standard" full account privileges on new account? [16.0.4 Server]

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I cloned a VM and changed its hostname and the sole account name as part of changing it from the source it was cloned from. However, the modified account behaves differently to the original.

It seems like its privileges are different?

When I ssh into the original system and the clone the terminals are different: screenshot

And using nano shows a warning message on the cloned version of the OS:

Unable to create directory /home/modelnode1/.nano: Permission denied
It is required for saving/loading search history or cursor positions.

Press Enter to continue

Requiring sudo nano to get rid of this.

Running ls -lsa /home/modelnode1 returns:

total 8
4 dr-x------ 2 modelnode1 masternode 4096 Feb 28 15:06 .
4 drwxr-xr-x 5 root       root       4096 Feb 28 22:38 ..
0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 modelnode1 masternode   56 Feb 28 15:06 Access-Your-Private-Data.desktop -> /usr/share/ecryptfs-utils/ecryptfs-mount-private.desktop
0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 modelnode1 masternode   36 Feb 28 15:06 .ecryptfs -> /home/.ecryptfs/masternode/.ecryptfs
0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 modelnode1 masternode   35 Feb 28 15:06 .Private -> /home/.ecryptfs/masternode/.Private
0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 modelnode1 masternode   52 Feb 28 15:06 README.txt -> /usr/share/ecryptfs-utils/ecryptfs-mount-private.txt

Have I missed something when setting up this account?

Any help is much appreciated!

16.04

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    From the info you provided:

    • You changed the username
    • Unable to create directory /home/modelnode1/.nano: Permission denied

    I suspect that the source of the problem, is in-complete change of user-name

    Can you please confirm that the folder /home/modelnode1/

    1. exists

    2. Is owned by the new user-name modelnode1

    3. Has read/write permissions to the owner of the directory

    You can check it using the following command, which will show the directory owner and permissions:

    ls -lsa /home/modelnode1/

    The following commands might solve your problem:

    sudo mkdir -p /home/modelnode1
sudo chown -R  modelnode1 /home/modelnode1
sudo chmod -R  711 /home/modelnode1

    • mkdir -p command - will create the directory if it isn't exists yet

    • chown -R command will change the owner of /home/modelnode1 to be modelnode1 (which currently doesn't have write permissions to this folder)

    • chmod -R command will provide full permission to the owner of the folder

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