From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thierry Volpiatto Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Files created with emacs are owned by system Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:41:58 +0200 Message-ID: <87ljzh20k9.fsf@tux.homenetwork> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1217540722 24175 80.91.229.12 (31 Jul 2008 21:45:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:45:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: iainb.forms@googlemail.com Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 31 23:46:12 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KOfyD-0001k0-4V for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:46:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46924 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KOfxH-00073Y-HR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:45:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KOfwy-00072N-Ju for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:44:44 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KOfwu-0006yk-ND for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:44:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=43626 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KOfwu-0006yG-Cj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:44:40 -0400 Original-Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.190]:37635) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KOfwu-0001sK-0E for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:44:40 -0400 Original-Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id c7so349231nfi.26 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:44:37 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:cc:subject:references :date:in-reply-to:message-id:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=XV0bhz4JNKIduG2miyZT2XL8vDU/4ghmJTQtW+jrqVw=; b=rsmPfG79oabuT9qAvBXw2QTx31i9rd4xwhwAVlPGd71HBJP9e9O54+G8V/wNAWYEBs wTIQI2hLcvHDFRgWaNyeu7C18dXLKg871vpVXznODZTmBfERsA7m1GLC82FUHTbmfwVB qDG0tjOdC5/iNhkz09r70G5JXwd47CLn/sK6M= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; b=iO91NiV5I1xRITPtVL4p1v8tfnO4W5bobToocUJEpQ4YuIKJwzuMPAZkJjMAvxZOBs xtYPQUHsjvD3rEICNvkzBjAeuYFsWd+Smw27zuXo/CLuBOQCxOPhWoTtwj+vwokqWEtE g5kMkT6ZN9bnLd9QlX4Z2al201tapTaacpK64= Original-Received: by 10.210.20.17 with SMTP id 17mr9694638ebt.70.1217540677158; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:44:37 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from tux.homenetwork ( [77.197.77.133]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 33sm390863nfu.7.2008.07.31.14.44.35 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:44:36 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (iainb forms's message of "Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:44:45 -0700 (PDT)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:56107 Archived-At: iainb.forms@googlemail.com writes: > Hi, > > I'm running Emacs on OSX 10.4 in Terminal. Every time I create a new > file using C-x C-f the owner is "system" and not my user, so the files > become read-only! I'm not running with sudo or su, so I'm not quite > sure why this is happening. > > I'd like emacs to automatically save the files under my user account. > Any help with this is much appreciated. > > Thanks > Iain > Hi, are you sure you have a user account on your system ? What say the command? : whoami -- A + Thierry Volpiatto Location: Saint-Cyr-Sur-Mer - France