X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4A5BCCA8.5020204@cygwin.com> Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:09:12 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090320 Remi/2.0.0.21-1.fc8.remi Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.21 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Username hassles References: <20090713150949.GF4505@calimero.vinschen.de> <87bpnoa49i.fsf@gmail.com> <4A5B8234.4020701@cygwin.com> <877hyc9tsn.fsf@gmail.com> <4A5BB021.20101@cygwin.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Mark J. Reed wrote: > On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Larry Hall wrote: >> If you prefer "paul" to be used, you need to do >> one of two things: >> >> 1. Remove the "MEAD8998" user from your '/etc/passwd'. It's presumably >> before the "paul" user in the file and has the same SID. >> >> 2. "chmod -R paul / /usr/bin /usr/lib" > > Correction: that should be "chown", not "chmod". Indeed. I meant to correct that before I sent it out. Thanks. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple