[Info-vax] stumped by SSH

David Froble davef at tsoft-inc.com
Mon Feb 8 22:32:50 EST 2016


Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2016-02-07, David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>> Simon Clubley wrote:
>>> An example: are the file permissions on [000000]good_account.dir the
>>> same as the file permissions on [000000]bad_account.dir ?
>>>
>>> (Ignoring the different UIC of course).
>>>
>> No, don't ignore the UIC.  It needs to be the same, normally, as the specified 
>> UIC in the UAF record.
>>
> 
> Er, David, please read the posting again. :-)
> 
> I was asking Phillip to compare two different accounts to see if they are
> identical apart from their UICs which should be different to each other
> (as they clearly have different login directories.)
> 
>> I'm assuming that some prived user account is setting up the UAF record, AND, 
>> creating the default directory for the new user account.  Normally, the new UAF 
>> UIC and the new directory would have the same UIC.  I've screwed that up in the 
>> past.
> 
> And that's exactly why the UICs should be different between the two accounts.
> 
> Simon.
> 

Quite right.  What you wrote, as with much, can be misunderstood.  I took it to 
mean that checking the UICs wasn't necessary.  You meant that they should not be 
the same.



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