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- From: lga@sandman.stanford.edu(Laurent Amon)
- Subject: Re: disappearing home icons?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.191432.4156@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Reply-To: amon@cs.stanford.edu
- Organization: DSO, Stanford University
- References: <1992Jul21.155712.5633@rtsg.mot.com>
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- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 19:14:32 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul21.155712.5633@rtsg.mot.com> skrbec@tophat4.rtsg.mot.com
- (Brad Skrbec) writes:
- > I've had this peculiar problem at home, and haven't
- > been able to figure it out. For one account on my
- > NeXT, when I move the browser to other people's home
- > directories, I get a folder icon, rather than the
- > "multiple homes" icon. All of the other accounts
- > seem to work correctly, just this one has the problem.
- >
- > What gives? Any ideas?
-
- On my system, this happens only for a 'guest' account, which I have
- invalidated. It seems that if you don't have the correct home directory set for
- the account, or it is invalidated, you get the folder icon. Do
- nidump passwd .
- to check.
-
- Hope it helps,
-
- Lga.
- ---
- |"I don't know what it's called, but
- Laurent Amon | we're doing one about going to see
- e-mail: amon@cs.stanford.edu | a wizard. Something about following
- lga@sandman.stanford.edu | a yellow sick toad. (Moving Pictures)
-