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From: haydeh@geoff.tamu.edu (Heidi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: problem with BSDI
Date: 3 Aug 1996 12:29 CST
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
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Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3AUG199612293563@geoff.tamu.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Host: geoff.tamu.edu
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41
Dear Expert,
I am running UNIX (BSDI) software on PC, recently I had a disk problem
which generated a lot of errors. The disk could not be repaired, so I
decided to place a new disk and restore system from the backup tape
which I had.
I restored everything and system is up and running BUT all the users
top directory (.) "when i issue %ls -alg" belongs to the root wheel and
I know it should belong to user name.
1- what did I do wrong that cause this problem? (so I won't repeat that next
time)
2- How can I fix this problem as a su? Do I have to login as root to fix this?
As you know user can login and can read their file but cannot write to the
directory.
I thank you for your help.
Best Regards,
Heidi