Username hassles

Tue Jul 14 07:51:00 GMT 2009

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.

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