individual config file

[Brian K. White]

On 12/16/2011 8:44 AM, Robert T. Repko (R Squared Consultants) wrote:

> I tracked down the problem to the permissions on a directory just
> above ~username.  My users are in /u/users, the permissions on the
> users directory were wrong.  I'm the only one that works on this
> system so it must have been something I did, but for the life of me I
> don't know how they got screwed up.  I found the problem by comparing
> the permissions to other SCO system I manage.  Once I corrected the
> permissions the environment variable is populated and I see the
> alternate configuration.
>
> Thanks to all who replied.

Hah. I should have though of that once your reply showed the path to the 
home dir.

The very fact that the home parent dir was /u/users means that someone 
manually changed it from default /u, and manually created /u/users 
itself because no system tool does that automatically.

Making sure /u has correct permissions is probably a silly distraction 
waste of time in most cases, but anything that had to be manually 
created like /u/users absolutely needs to be checked.

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bkw