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Re: Username hassles


On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Larry Hall wrote:
> ÂIf you prefer "paul" to be used, you need to do
> one of two things:
>
> Â1. Remove the "MEAD8998" user from your '/etc/passwd'. ÂIt's presumably
> Â Â before the "paul" user in the file and has the same SID.
>
> Â2. "chmod -R paul / /usr/bin /usr/lib"

Correction: that should be "chown", not "chmod".

> If "MEAD8998" and "paul" exist in your '/etc/passwd' file and share the
> same SID, use (1). ÂOtherwise, use (2).

-- 
Mark J. Reed <markjreed@gmail.com>

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