[nmglug] messed up permissions!

[Brian O'Keefe]

On Monday 10 April 2006 12:20 pm, Gary Sandine wrote:
I have played around the command line in OS X but at my advanced age I tremble 
at the thought of learning all of the syntax! I still try and still screw up. 
I am going to login to Linux as root and run the commands. I realize also 
that when i changed ownership of .ICEauthority I did that from OS X so 
hopefully your commands will change that.
Thanks guys!
PS: Brian-OKeefes-Computer:~ brianokeefe$ echo $UID
501
In OS X


 > On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 10:23:38AM -0600, js at jasonschaefer.com wrote:
> > The echo $UID does not work in tcsh, not sure why. Newer versions of OSX
> > switched to bash, which is much more popular. To find  your user id you
> > need to read the contents of /etc/passwd in OSX. You can do this with
> > grep, cat, less, vi, etc. (i.e., 'cat /etc/passwd'). Look for your user
> > and it will tell you  which uid you have. Its the first number after
> > your name. The second number is group ID.
>
> Have you ever tried doing standard "unix stuff" like this in OS X?
> I don't think you'll find user accounts in /etc/passwd.  :)  Run
>
> /Applications/Utilities/Netinfo\ Manager
>
> to find it.  IMO this is preferable over netinfo manager if it works,
> at a tcsh prompt do:
>
> % bash
> $ echo $UID