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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.misc
- Subject: Re: chown : HELP!
- Keywords: changing owners
- Message-ID: <p34g2l8@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 04:43:49 GMT
- References: <1992Aug26.081722.27559@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@zuni.esd.sgi.com (Net News)
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
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- In <1992Aug26.081722.27559@leland.Stanford.EDU> underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe) writes:
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- | In brief, I logged onto my system as the "root" user. Then,
- | I used "cd" to get to my normal user account, say, "falcon".
- |
- | An "ls -l" on a typical file in "falcon" gives
- | drwxrwxrwx 2 falcon user 512 Mar 30 13:22 News
- |
- | I copied a tlinked a directory called "example", as the "root" user, to
- | the partition on my disk for "falcon". After doing a "cd" down
- | to "falcon", I did a "ls -l" on the tlinked directory, "example".
- |
- | I get
- | drwxrwxrwx 2 nobody user 512 Mar 31 13:22 example
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- Sure sounds to me like you are using NFS. If you are going to
- be doing development using NFS mounted directories, I suggest you
- read up on NFS before you get burned further.
-
- Also, slightly less offensive language would get you a bit further
- in your requests.
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- because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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