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From: glennrp@BRL.MIL (Glenn Randers-Pehrson, TBD|WMB)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re:  /usr/people
Message-ID: <9102220823.aa03198@TBD2.BRL.MIL>
Date: 22 Feb 91 13:23:46 GMT
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 > From: tony@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu (Tony Reynolds)
 > In article <9102130954.aa03988@TBD2.BRL.MIL> glennrp@BRL.MIL (Glenn Randers-Pehrson, TBD|WMB) writes:
 >>> From: steve@CHAOS.OCEAN.FSU.EDU (Steve Van Gorder)
 >>> I just noticed by accident today that /usr/people is owned by guest !?!? 
 >>> drwxr-xr-x  10 guest    guest        512 Feb 12 12:24 people
 >>
 >>	Good grief.  I found the same situation.  It was on a system
 >>disc that I recently installed from scratch with the 3.3 installation
 > 
 > Well, you could easily get this by making the new user by hand.  This is
 > the steps to take to make this mistake: You gotta be root!
 > chown .* newguy

	No, I didn't do that.  /usr/people was owned by guest, right out
of the 3.3 installation tape.

	Anyway, if I had made a new user, I would have used
chown newguy . .??*
 to avoid messing with "..".


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