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Re: [cobalt-users] Help Navigating Directories
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Help Navigating Directories
- From: "cbtrussell" <cbtrussell@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu Feb 21 17:41:12 2002
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
> chmod 755 the directories. They need to be writable. Incidentally, it's
> probably a good idea to limit usernames to 8 characters. It may not be a
> problem for you with brandon0108, but if you ever have a brandon0anything
> you'll have a tough time looking at directory output and telling who owns
> what without using the -n flag to view the UID and crossreferencing with
> /etc/passwd.
doh! rookie mistake on the directory permissions.
good point on the 8 character names. thanks, Steve!
Brandon