Tom Patton wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-04-01 at 02:47 -0500, dwain wrote:
>
>> M Harris wrote:
>>
>>> It will look something like this:
>>>
>>> drwxr-xr-x 2 mark users 192 2006-10-01 00:35 .
>>> drwxr-xr-x 34 mark users 1808 2007-04-01 01:17 ..
>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 mark users 1703 2006-10-01 00:27 bclib
>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 mark users 254 2006-10-01 00:27 bctests
>>>
>>>
>>> But.... I want to know what YOUR ls -al looks like... please.
>>>
>
>
>> So here's the ls -al from the profiles folder:
>>
>> total 3784
>> drwxr-xr-x 2 wda530106 users 4096 2007-04-01 02:14 .
>> drwxr-xr-x 34 wda530106 users 4096 2007-04-01 02:14 ..
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 wda530106 users 3852820 2005-11-03 06:01
>> adobe-color-profiles-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 wda530106 users 2505 2007-03-31 21:47 gmail-to-outlook.csv
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 wda530106 users 3024 2007-03-31 21:06
>> sRGB_IEC61966-2-1_noBPC.icc
>>
>>
> dwain -- welcome to LINUX, hang in there, it is worth the confusion, and
> help is here, from many smart guys and gals...
>
> I'm not using profiles to compare my folder, but I wonder if you have
> given up a password somehow. Notice Mark's listing shows his user name
> "mark", and your listing shows user "wda530106". That seems to me an
> awkward user name.
>
> You mentioned a reinstall, did you perhaps inadvertently use your
> password as your login NAME???
>
> If that is a password, I suggest you forget it and select a new one! If
> it was a "test user", then ""never mind"".
>
> Tom in NM
>
>
Thanks for the encouragement. I had written a friend who had done some
computer work for me about an issue I was having and he told me to get
ready for some more hair pulling. Since then I have considered shaving
my head so there wouldn't be anything to pull. :-o I have come to
really like Linux. I like the look and feel (I used to have Redmond as
my splash screen for a grin) and I really like all the security
features, although they do get in the way sometimes. I have to keep
reminding myself -- Windows or Linux, insecurity or security.
I read an article recently where one can buy from Microsoft a
certification for $500 and be able to stick an exploitation rootkit on
Vista machines. Windows or Linux? I don't mind the learning curve of
Linux. I guess I'm a hacker at heart. My wife tells me to leave the
computers alone, especially hers, still I tinker.
No, wda530106 is the user name, I have a different password for the
account. Is it difficult to change the user profile name without
messing things up? Maybe it would be easier at log in, you know, not so
much to type.
I currently write a basic computer column for the non-tech-savvy
computer user for a local weekly newspaper. It's Windows based, but I
am getting ready to proselytize open source software for Windows. I
also see a column on open source operating systems. Nothing too
detailed, just a heads up to what's available.
Thanks again for the welcome. I find the list very helpful and the
members very knowledgeable.
Dwain
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