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Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 00:27:18 -0400
From: Russ Cox <russcox@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] u9fs -u <user>
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> how is the -u switch supposed to work when u9fs is run as root ?

it's supposed to work when u9fs is *not* run as root.
it's meant for personal use on machines where you 
can't run as root.

> term% 9fs 172.16.13.1 unix
> post...
> term% touch unix/heyya
> term% ls -l unix/heyya
> --rw-r--r-- M 71 root adi 0 Sep 10 00:24 unix/heyya
>                  ^^^^
> 
> the userchange() function has been changed to always succeed without
> doing anything at all when 'defaultuser' is set - is that right ?

yes, but only because it means something other than
what you expect it to mean.

russ