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Thank you for taking the time to run such a trial test.

What do you think would be the best course of action following
 fsys main open -A ?
Delete all files owned by user and remove user from the FS user table?
Then perhaps recreate the user?
Or instead, just look around for what might be "amiss" (not sure where
to start)? (I'm not sure where the user information is searched for by
the system other than the user table -- what else could possibly affect
it?)

Regards

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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 16:11:45 -0500
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On Thu Nov  6 15:49:03 EST 2008, akumar@sounine.nanosouffle.net wrote:
> Erik,
>
> Taking your advice, I tried connecting to fscons and running:
>   uname user user
> however, the fs reports:
>   uname: uname 'user' already exists
> is this what you meant to try in your previous post, or have I
> misunderstood?
>
> Thanks

i think something is amiss.  using a temporary file instead of /dev/sdC0/fossil,
i followed the example in fossil(4).  then on the console i created a user "bad"

	main: create junk sys sys d777
	main: uname bad bad

then i mounted the fossil and created junk/bad
	; touch bad; chgrp -u bad bad; chgrp bad bad
	; ls -l
	--rw-rw-rw- M 13950 bad bad 0 Nov  6 16:02 bad

then on the fossil console
	main: users -d
		nuser 5 len 84

then back on plan 9:
	; ls -l
	--rw-rw-rw- M 13950 (bad) (bad) 0 Nov  6 16:02 bad

i can lather, rince and repeat this process.  i have no idea what
could be wrong in your case.  regardless, if you turn auth off,
(-A), you will be god and can nuke anything.

- erik
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