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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers OS X - problems reassigning rights to new shortname Post 302144138 by riptorn41 on Tuesday 6th of November 2007 11:13:27 AM
Old 11-06-2007
OS X - problems reassigning rights to new shortname
I work in an Active Directory environment, and we just hired a new person. However, the manager spellt her name wrong, so I have to set up her user account all over again.

Apple has this solution in their knowledge base (a bunch of other steps are involved that aren't pertinent here):

chown -R <new_name> /Users/<new_name>

So I go to do it, using our naming scheme.

chown -R <bob.hope> "/Users/bob.hope"

I get two responses from terminal: either 'no such file or directory' or 'Is a directory'. This is frustrating because I can see the directory in the finder and in terminal, and I wouldn't tell it to be recursive if it wasn't a directory.

I'm obviously a total noob, but any help would cause me to kiss you full on the mouth.

Thanks!
 

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TTYS(4)                                                      Linux Programmer's Manual                                                     TTYS(4)

NAME

       ttyS - serial terminal lines

DESCRIPTION

       ttyS[0-3] are character devices for the serial terminal lines.

       They are typically created by:

           mknod -m 660 /dev/ttyS0 c 4 64 # base address 0x3f8
           mknod -m 660 /dev/ttyS1 c 4 65 # base address 0x2f8
           mknod -m 660 /dev/ttyS2 c 4 66 # base address 0x3e8
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