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Re: Athena10 initial install
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Tue Sep 16 19:40:54 2008
Message-Id: <200809162340.m8GNe9aM011477@central.mit.edu>
To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
cc: alexp@MIT.EDU, testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:56:41 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:40:09 -0400
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
>> 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
>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.
I think I looked at it, saw it was already owned by alexp and skipped
that step. I see that I should have anyway, as that would have
switched UIDs even though usernames are the same. I've since been able
to fix it.
I think this has the potential for making a lot of confused users out
there, and calls to the help desk...
A.
