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* [9fans] username surrounded by '( and )' e.g., '(username')
@ 2010-02-22  9:57 ROuNIN
  2010-02-22 13:17 ` Charles Forsyth
  2010-02-22 18:06 ` Russ Cox
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: ROuNIN @ 2010-02-22  9:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

Hello all,
Can someone explain how this happened?

d-rwxrwxr-x M 8 glenda     glenda     0 Feb 13 13:38 glenda
d-rwxrwxr-x M 8 '(rounin)' '(rounin)' 0 Feb 14 18:28 rounin

I am not sure of the steps that were taken to get the above ' and ( ).
Is it possible to rename/modify the '( )'?

Many thanks,
ROuNIN



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* Re: [9fans] username surrounded by '( and )' e.g., '(username')
  2010-02-22  9:57 [9fans] username surrounded by '( and )' e.g., '(username') ROuNIN
@ 2010-02-22 13:17 ` Charles Forsyth
  2010-02-22 18:06 ` Russ Cox
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Charles Forsyth @ 2010-02-22 13:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

>Can someone explain how this happened?
>d-rwxrwxr-x M 8 '(rounin)' '(rounin)' 0 Feb 14 18:28 rounin

it means there isn't an entry for "rounin" in /adm/users,
so it shows the name unchanged as stored by fossil.
(it's stored without the () -- those are just to distinguish the internal
name from a normal name that does appear in /adm/users.)



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* Re: [9fans] username surrounded by '( and )' e.g., '(username')
  2010-02-22  9:57 [9fans] username surrounded by '( and )' e.g., '(username') ROuNIN
  2010-02-22 13:17 ` Charles Forsyth
@ 2010-02-22 18:06 ` Russ Cox
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Russ Cox @ 2010-02-22 18:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs

> Can someone explain how this happened?

You deleted user rounin, perhaps using the fossil uname command.
You can recreate it by saying

    uname rounin :rounin

on the fossil console.  The : keeps it from trying to create /usr/rounin again.

Russ


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