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Date: Wed,  6 Aug 2008 18:24:59 -0600
From: "andrey mirtchovski" <mirtchovski@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] fossil permission checking
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/ is indeed mounted without -c. if you want to create a directory in /
use /root. see 'nm' for how the namespace is constructed.

i believe new directories in / are frowned upon (even if created in
/root). i can't find the relevant message in the archives.

On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 6:10 PM, Benjamin Huntsman
<BHuntsman@mail2.cu-portland.edu> wrote:
> I'm having some trouble setting up a terminal (which will become a cpu/auth server).
> I've gotten the 9pccpuf kernel booted, and is running as the user bootes, but even from the server's console, if I type something as simple as "echo hi > /foo" I receive the message:
>
> mounted directory forbids creation
>
> I've basically followed the wiki pages on setting up a standalone auth/cpu server, though it's not getting me very far on the fossil side of things...  I chose all of the defaults during the install process,
>
> Can someone give me a quick tip as to how to set up a new cpu/fossil user that can actually write to something other than their home directory?
>
> Also, there's not exactly a command like UNIX's sudo, is there?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
>