[plug] ownership

[Marc Wiriadisastra]

James Devenish wrote:

>In message <4108A778.40304 at smlintl.com.au>
>on Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 03:30:00PM +0800, Marc Wiriadisastra wrote:
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>>1. How do I enforce something going into a folder to be changed to the 
>>permissions of that folder ignoring what the users rights are.
>>e.g. I have on my desktop a folder I transfer
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>Via what means are you transferring those files?
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Ok I'm transferring the files using Open Office as in save as or kde 
using kde as in copy and paste or Konsole.

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>>2. I can't seem to login to the computer as anything but root as soon as 
>>I put my password in putty dies turns off?  Now if I ssh into it using 
>>the ssh marc-w at blah.com.au it spits out this error in the /var/log/messages
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>>Jul 29 15:19:20 dhcp-192-168-0-104 gdm(pam_unix)[2454]: session opened 
>>for user marc-w by (uid=0)
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>Um...I don't quite understand either your description or the relevance
>of the log lines. I imagine that you are using PuTTY to connect from a
>Windows machine to a Linux machine over a network. However, the above
>log lines pertain to "gdm", which is a Linux display manager (i.e.
>pretty much nothing to do with SSH).
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I did that as an example to get an error message I use putty in linux 
cause the text is really tiny and its easier to use so instead of using 
konsole and ssh'ing I installed putty and just do that.

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