On Thursday 01 October 2009, Charles Curley wrote:
>On Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:51:56 -0400
>
>Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net> wrote:
>> On Thursday 01 October 2009, Charles Curley wrote:
>> >On Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:58:48 -0400
>> >
>> >Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net> wrote:
>> >> On Thursday 01 October 2009, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> See?  Its sort of a now it can be told thing.  But that brings up
>> >> the question of who owns /home/amanda on such a (broken IMO)
>> >> installation?
>> >
>> >Actually, nobody owns it; it doesn't exist on a standard Ubuntu
>> >installation. From my unchanged Ubuntu client installation:
>> >
>> >root@dzur:/var# grep backup /etc/passwd
>> >backup:x:34:34:backup:/var/backups:/bin/sh
>> >root@dzur:/var#
>>
>> Oookaaay, what do you get from a "grep amanda /etc/passwd"?
>
>About the value of a political promise on election night.
>
>ccurley@dragon:~$ egrep amanda\|backup /etc/passwd
>backup:x:34:34:backup:/var/backups:/bin/sh
>ccurley@dragon:~$ grep amanda /etc/passwd
>ccurley@dragon:~$
>
So you don't even have a user amanda, nor a /home/amanda directory...

Interesting.  Bears further investigation I believe.  When I'm fresher.

Thanks Charles.

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