I upgraded from F21 to F25 ,in Installation I did not format the /home directory and left it intact, I set the passwd for one user during setup and install, but I did not set a passwd for a second user that was named "guest" and now that I'm in F25 , how do I assign a passwd for /home/guest ?

There is no settings in /etc/passwd for /home/guest.

I went into the Users Gui and tried to assign a passwd for guest but it won't let me do that unless I delete /home/guest and I don't want to do that, there is pictures in /home/guest

I suggest that you rename /home/guest to /home/guest.old. Then go into the GUI and created user guest. Then copy whatever you need from /home/guest.old to /home/guest. If necessary then use the chown command to straighten out the ownership of files in /home/guest.

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Steve Stites

Jailbait thank you, but surely there has to be a easier way to do it, on the command line.

if a user /home/guest is already present. then just create a user name guest, you may get a message directory is all ready there, etc.. that is good.

then assign guest a password. the guest home directory is already there. the system will just use what is already there.

no need to make the guest dir an old dir and re create what is already there.

Not sure about the exact details of your "no user guest account created" situation, but
Did you try the # useradd -o switch? Unix works by uid/gid NUMBERS, irrespective of /etc/passwd "name mappings" (the kernel itself CAN function withOUT /etc/passwd!!!)
# cd /home; mv guest xxzxx; ls -l; df xxzxx; du -s xxzxx
(the df/du are just "sanity checks", to verify what's what)
Add guest user with *SAME* uid&gid numbers as xxzxx (in ls -l; also see ls -n switch)
Check (edit: vi -r ? vipw? naw: grep, more or less) /etc/{passwd,shadow,group}
Then, in /home, mv guest xxjunk; mv xxzxx guest; du -s guest
I -think- this will work, unless SELinux issues(?).

What is the commandline Command to change all files,folders to a user ?

chown -R *****

you didn't do the
did you?
how you need to change everything to user:group /home/user -R ?

when you could have just kept it like it was and recreated the very same user name then given same said user name a password : done.

You also want to set the group name. Something like:

chown username:groupname /home/guest

chown -r username:groupname /home/guest/*


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Steve Stites