On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 09:05:54AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
[...]
> It demonstrates the problem of Linux's jargon[1].
Linux's jargon has no problems ;-)
> That file has 32 entries. Only 2 are relate to my problem ["richard"
> & "root"].
How would you know? Perhaps the other 30 users are bu
On 12/27/2018 07:34 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Thu, Dec 27, 2018 at 06:48:51AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 12/25/2018 11:22 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Tue, Dec 25, 2018 at 10:06:04AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
[...]
Linux intrinsically assumes one machine has multiple users.
On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 12:13:23AM +1100, David wrote:
> The command
> awk -F: '{print $1}' /etc/passwd
> will display all the known users on your machine.
A better (more general) one would be: getent passwd | awk -F: '{print $1}'
/etc/passwd will be complete for many systems, but not for all sy
On Thu, 27 Dec 2018 at 23:49, Richard Owlett wrote:
>
> {I am the ONLY user on any of the machines.}
Have you checked?
The command
awk -F: '{print $1}' /etc/passwd
will display all the known users on your machine.
The commands 'ps aux' or top or htop
will show active users in the USER column.
On Thu, Dec 27, 2018 at 06:48:51AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 12/25/2018 11:22 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> >On Tue, Dec 25, 2018 at 10:06:04AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
[...]
> >>Linux intrinsically assumes one machine has multiple users.
> >
> >...and it is right in its assumption.
>
On 12/25/2018 11:22 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Tue, Dec 25, 2018 at 10:06:04AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 12/24/2018 05:50 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
...
The discussion so far has caused me to wonder if I have been
conflating symptoms. I think I've an idea of how to test for that
-- mo
Richard Owlett composed on 2018-12-23 06:51 (UTC-0600):
...
Not a substitute for gaining and utilizing understanding of chown, chmod,
chacl, sticky bits and
the rest of file access and permissions, but a way to lessen the pain in the
meantime:
Put the files to be transferred into an archive (.zi
Am 23.12.18 um 13:51 schrieb Richard Owlett:
> I use USB drives to transfer files between systems (sneakernet).
> All systems have only one user(richard). It was created during installation.
>
> The drives are either ext2 or ext4 formatted.
> All files were in /user/richard on source machine
Are
On 12/25/18 8:06 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 12/24/2018 05:50 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
...
The discussion so far has caused me to wonder if I have been
conflating symptoms. I think I've an idea of how to test for that --
more later.
Preliminary tests indicate that is likely.
I will have t
On Tue, Dec 25, 2018 at 10:06:04AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 12/24/2018 05:50 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> >...
> >
> >The discussion so far has caused me to wonder if I have been
> >conflating symptoms. I think I've an idea of how to test for that
> >-- more later.
>
> Preliminary tests in
On 12/24/2018 05:50 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
...
The discussion so far has caused me to wonder if I have been conflating
symptoms. I think I've an idea of how to test for that -- more later.
Preliminary tests indicate that is likely.
I will have to get some new flash drives to track my tests
On Mon, Dec 24, 2018 at 05:50:15AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 12/23/2018 03:25 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> >On Sun, Dec 23, 2018 at 05:46:17PM +, mick crane wrote:
> >>On 2018-12-23 17:10, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> >
> >[...]
> >
> >>>And you do that after each and every mount?
> >>>
>
On 12/23/2018 03:06 PM, David Christensen wrote:
On 12/23/18 4:51 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
I use USB drives to transfer files between systems (sneakernet).
All systems have only one user(richard). It was created during
installation.
The drives are either ext2 or ext4 formatted.
All files wer
On 12/23/2018 03:25 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Sun, Dec 23, 2018 at 05:46:17PM +, mick crane wrote:
On 2018-12-23 17:10, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
[...]
And you do that after each and every mount?
Cheers
-- tomás
well no, I didn't read properly and was trying to be helpful without
un
On Sun, Dec 23, 2018 at 05:46:17PM +, mick crane wrote:
> On 2018-12-23 17:10, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
[...]
> >And you do that after each and every mount?
> >
> >Cheers
> >-- tomás
> well no, I didn't read properly and was trying to be helpful without
> understanding what the problem was
I
On 12/23/18 4:51 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
I use USB drives to transfer files between systems (sneakernet).
All systems have only one user(richard). It was created during
installation.
The drives are either ext2 or ext4 formatted.
All files were in /user/richard on source machine
They _often_
On 2018-12-23 17:10, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Sun, Dec 23, 2018 at 04:41:24PM +, mick crane wrote:
[...]
>find /home/richard -type d -exec chmod 750 {} \;
>find /home/richard -type f -exec chmod 640 {} \;
>chown -R richard /home/richard*;
>chgrp -R richard /home/richard*;
[sigh] missed
On Sun, Dec 23, 2018 at 04:41:24PM +, mick crane wrote:
[...]
> >find /home/richard -type d -exec chmod 750 {} \;
> >find /home/richard -type f -exec chmod 640 {} \;
> >chown -R richard /home/richard*;
> >chgrp -R richard /home/richard*;
>
> [sigh] missed off the slashes
>
> >chown -R richa
On 2018-12-23 14:38, mick crane wrote:
On 2018-12-23 12:51, Richard Owlett wrote:
I use USB drives to transfer files between systems (sneakernet).
All systems have only one user(richard). It was created during
installation.
The drives are either ext2 or ext4 formatted.
All files were in /user
On 2018-12-23 12:51, Richard Owlett wrote:
I use USB drives to transfer files between systems (sneakernet).
All systems have only one user(richard). It was created during
installation.
The drives are either ext2 or ext4 formatted.
All files were in /user/richard on source machine
They _often_
Le 23/12/2018 à 13:51, Richard Owlett a écrit :
I use USB drives to transfer files between systems (sneakernet).
All systems have only one user(richard). It was created during
installation.
The drives are either ext2 or ext4 formatted.
All files were in /user/richard on source machine
They _o
I use USB drives to transfer files between systems (sneakernet).
All systems have only one user(richard). It was created during installation.
The drives are either ext2 or ext4 formatted.
All files were in /user/richard on source machine
They _often_ [but not always] are seen as owned by 'root',
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