On Feb 2, 2010, at 2:20 PM, Malcolm O'Brien wrote:
This is the 2nd try on this one....
Bruce,
You will see something like this:
frankenmac:~ johnson$ cd ..
frankenmac:Users johnson$ ls -l
total 0
drwxrwxrwt 10 root wheel 340 Apr 29 2009 Shared
drwxr-xr-x 102 johnson staff 3468 Dec 28 15:01 johnson
drwxr-xr-x+ 16 test staff 544 Feb 1 2009 test
What I saw was exactly like this:
drwxrwxrwt 9 root wheel 306 Jan 11 22:14 Shared
drwxr-xr-x 89 marianne staff 3026 Nov 19 16:00 macbookuser
drwxr-xr-x 69 marianne marianne 2346 Jan 18 15:37 mariannegirard
I remembered that the macbookuser entry was her old login. So I
figured I needed to use the 3rd line above as my source for username
and group.
sudo chown -R username:group /Users/username
Where username is her short username, and group is the second name
after the user name.
That got me:
chown: marianne: Invalid argument
I only dimply recall what the original problem was here, but presuming
her current user name is marianne, and she needs to own both of those
folders:
sudo chown -R marianne:marianne /users/macbookuser
sudo chown -R marianne:marianne /users/mariannegirard
This is odd, because 99% of the time the name of your user folder and
your user name are the same...
--
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group
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