[7697] in testers
Re: Athena10 initial install
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Tue Sep 16 17:57:26 2008
Cc: testers@mit.edu
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
To: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200809162149.m8GLnZCG007644@dit.mit.edu>
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Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:56:41 -0400
> 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.
Did you run step #8 in the fixing a local account problem, the "chown"
step?
That will ensure it's owned by your athena uid, and not your previous
local uid.
-Jon
