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From: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>
To: iainb.forms@googlemail.com
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Files created with emacs are owned by system
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:41:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ljzh20k9.fsf@tux.homenetwork> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cfe53273-771a-4741-be09-e43b332a4eda@e39g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> (iainb forms's message of "Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:44:45 -0700 (PDT)")

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




  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-07-31 21:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-31 18:44 Files created with emacs are owned by system iainb.forms
2008-07-31 21:34 ` Peter Dyballa
2008-07-31 21:41 ` Thierry Volpiatto [this message]
2008-08-01  8:23 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
     [not found] ` <mailman.15696.1217578999.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-01 11:32   ` iainb.forms
2008-08-01 11:38     ` iainb.forms
2008-08-01 11:52     ` Peter Dyballa
     [not found]     ` <mailman.15702.1217591538.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-01 12:01       ` Joost Kremers
2008-08-01 13:33         ` Peter Dyballa
     [not found]         ` <mailman.15706.1217597618.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-01 13:47           ` Joost Kremers
2008-08-01 13:53             ` Richard G Riley
2008-08-01 14:08               ` Joost Kremers
2008-08-01 14:22               ` iainb.forms
2008-08-01 14:33                 ` Joost Kremers
2008-08-01 15:04                   ` iainb.forms
2008-08-01 15:53                     ` Peter Dyballa
2008-08-01 16:12                       ` Thierry Volpiatto
2008-08-01 16:25                         ` Peter Dyballa
2008-08-01 17:47                     ` Joost Kremers
2008-08-01 18:50                       ` Peter Dyballa
     [not found]                       ` <mailman.15726.1217616618.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-01 19:17                         ` David Kastrup
2008-08-01 20:55                           ` Peter Dyballa
2008-08-02  8:25                           ` iainb.forms
2008-08-06 23:42                             ` Mark Hood
2008-08-01 19:24                         ` Joost Kremers
2008-08-02  1:54                     ` Tim X
     [not found]                     ` <mailman.15719.1217606007.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-02 19:18                       ` D. Power
2008-08-01 15:31                 ` Peter Dyballa
2008-08-02  1:33                 ` Tim X
2008-08-02  1:29         ` Tim X
2008-08-01 13:16       ` iainb.forms
2008-08-01 13:39         ` Joost Kremers
2008-08-01 13:51         ` Peter Dyballa
2008-08-02  1:48         ` Tim X

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