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Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2002 23:07:45 -0500
From: "Cyber.Zombie" <Cyber DOT Zombie AT attbi DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Can't write .profile from vi
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"cat /etc/passwd" and look at your numeric user and group ids.  Now do a 
"ls -aln .profile".  I'm betting (given you're on a domain) that the id 
is not gonna match up with what NT thinks it should be -- and you should 
do a "mkpasswd -d ..." rather than -l (same using mkgroup).

Either that or do a "w!" (or chmod 777) on .profile...

luke DOT kendall AT cisra DOT canon DOT com DOT au wrote:

>My ~/.profile file is the only one I've found with this problem.
>As far a I can see, I have write permission, I am me, but I'm not
>allowed to write the file from vi!  I have to write it into another
>file in my home directory and then cp that on top of .profile!
>
>$ vi ~/.profile
>
>-rwxr-xr-x    1 luke     Domain U     4327 Aug 30 10:40 /home/luke/.profile
>Hit ENTER or type command to continue
>uid=11021(luke) gid=10513(Domain Users) groups=10513(Domain Users)
>"~/.profile"
>"~/.profile" E212: Can't open file for writing
>Hit ENTER or type command to continue
>
>I'm using /usr/bin/vi from the Cygwin installation.
>
>luke
>
>
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