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Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 10:40:57 +1000 (EST)
From: Luke Kendall <luke DOT kendall AT cisra DOT canon DOT com DOT au>
Subject: Re: How to update after a change of user?
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On 20 Oct, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>  Try 'chown'ing to Administrators.SYSTEM (note the "s") instead of 
>  Administrator.SYSTEM (i.e., "chown 544:18").  That way, anyone in the 
>  Administrators group will be able to manipulate the files.  You'll need to 
>  carefully exclude ~/.ssh and some other stuff (better yet, don't change 
>  anything not owned by the installing user -- see chown's --from flag). 

Ah!  That sounds perfect.  Many thanks, Igor.

luke


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