[7696] in testers
Athena10 initial install
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Tue Sep 16 17:50:21 2008
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To: testers@MIT.EDU
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Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:49:35 -0400
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
I more or less repeated Bill's Athena10 install, and can confirm most of
his observations (including the "apt-file update needed" prompt from the
installer).
I got a bit tripped up with the local account username being the same as my
Athena one; I too initially set up an initial user account username the same as
my Athena one (before installing Athena10); it's pretty much a reflex.
I followed the Athena 10 instructions for fixing this but got tripped up at
step 7, "useradd alexp admin"; it seemed syntactically wrong and the command
didn't take as given, so I tried "useradd alexp -G admin" which seemed to run
properly; I rebooted and got an Athena 10 login which used my Athena home
directory. Most things I've tried so far seem to work; but there's one
odd thing with /home/alexp, the old local home directory- it seemed to
already be owned by alexp without doing the chown step as root (step 8):
pavane:Tue athena% ls -ld /home/alexp
drwxr-xr-x 27 alexp alexp 4096 2008-09-16 17:24 /home/alexp/
but oddly, as alexp, I can only read from it and not write to it:
pavane:Tue athena% whoami
alexp
pavane:Tue athena% cd /home/alexp
pavane:Tue athena% echo foo >junk
junk: Permission denied.
Now I'm confused. Is this because there's an athena alexp but not a
local alexp? I didn't attempt to recreate the local alexp account
after deleting it as per step 6 in the "fixing the user account" part
of the Athena 10 install instructions.
Alex
