yeah I'm trying the second one but they aren't in my root overlay. they
might be in /etc/skel but they are created when the user is.

On 8/23/06, Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> Caleb Cushing wrote:
> > I created a custom auto-logon user. however X complains that the files
> > in the user's home directory aren't owned by him. how should I get these
> > files to be owned or at leas writeable by the user? the directory and
> > all files are owned by root.
>
> I assume you are putting these files on the CD using root_overlay. I just
> ran
> into the same problem last night. When catalyst copies the files into the
> chroot, it copies them with the same permissions.
>
> You have two options: 1) 'chown -R 1000:users' the stuff in the
> root_overlay dir
> (the first user created in the chroot will have the uid 1000), or 2) run
> 'chown
> -R youruser:users /home/youruser' in a fsscript.
>
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