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Re: Files created with emacs are owned by system

Subject: Re: Files created with emacs are owned by system
From: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:41:58 +0200
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help

iainb.forms@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

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

whoami

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