Hi,

I'm running Emacs on OSX 10.4 in Terminal. Every time I create a new
file using C-x C-f the owner is "system" and not my user, so the files
become read-only! I'm not running with sudo or su, so I'm not quite
sure why this is happening.

I'd like emacs to automatically save the files under my user account.
Any help with this is much appreciated.

Thanks
Iain

Am 31.07.2008 um 20:44 schrieb iainb.forms@googlemail.com:

Could you tell us the value of the environment variable GROUP? And
what is the command groups returning?

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iainb.forms@googlemail.com writes:

Hi,
are you sure you have a user account on your system ?
What say the command? :

whoami

iainb.forms@googlemail.com wrote:

I'm on 10.5, and it doesn't have a user "system". Does the account have
the same user ID as "root"?

regards,
Nikolaj Schumacher

whoami: iainb
groups: iainb appserveradm appserverusr admin
echo $GROUP: returned nothing - if there are ways to get env vars set
within emacs, I don't know how to do that.

the user "system" doesn't appear in my Netinfo database, but it is
quite common to find it owning the file if using the Get Info command
from the Finder (which gives more meta info, so I tend to use that
instead of unix commands for ownership). It appears to be an alias
used by Apple

ls -al:
-rw-

Btw, just saw this recent post to the group that has a similar problem
with creating read-only files:
http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.emacs.help/browse_thread/thread/91010d5de48d8...#

I'm not sure what to do about the "set-defa8ult-file-modes" advice -
I'm running Haskell mode, and it's the only stuff in my init file.

umask: 0022

Regards,
Iain

Am 01.08.2008 um 13:32 schrieb iainb.forms:

This file is owned by root – not by you.

You should try:

sudo chown -R iainb:iainb ~iainb

log off and in again.

Peter Dyballa wrote:

are you sure that's such a wise idea? changing ownership of literally
*everything* in someone's home dir?

On Aug 1, 12:52 pm, Peter Dyballa wrote:

Am 01.08.2008 um 14:01 schrieb Joost Kremers:

The Haskell file in his home directory he showed did not belong to
him. He also described that he has problems to save files. So I
assumed that also directories might not be owned by him.

BTW, what's so bad (or dangerous or capitalistic) of owning
everything in my home directory tree?

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