On Sunday, August 2, 2026 at 02:46:41 PM CDT, Felix Miata via tde-users users@trinitydesktop.org wrote:
CHRIS M composed on 2026-08-02 13:35 (UTC-0500):
If I can get TDE set up, I can abandon the " chris" account... I just wouldn't be able to access the data partition if I had to log into Cinnamon.
Just to get you by until you know you'll only need one user, the following is how I would get there (after backing up /etc/group; permission by chrisontde to existing partition 5 mount configuration), as I don't use any GUI tools for partitioning, and rarely touch GUI tools for altering users and groups:
sudo chmod 775 /media/chris/DATA sudo sed -i 's/chris:x:1000:/chris:x:1000:chrisontde/' /etc/group # IOW, append chrisontde to the line beginning with chris using any # plain text editor upon file /etc/group
The first assumes
# ls -ld /media/chris/DATA drwx------ ... /media/chris/DATA # full rwx permissions only to user chris
and grants full rwx access to /media/chris/DATA by group chrisontde in addition to user chris. It also assumes that the cinnamon configuration utility didn't include something that prevents this from working. I have no idea how it did what it did.
# ls -ld /media/chris/DATA drwxrwx--- ... /media/chris/DATA # full rwx permissions to both chris and members of group chrisontde
The second adds user chrisontde to group chris.