{"id":193,"date":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","date_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdhouse.org\/betips\/?p=193"},"modified":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","modified_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","slug":"who-the-hell-is-baron-and-why-does-he-own-my-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/?p=193","title":{"rendered":"Who\n the hell is baron and why does he own my files?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every time you run an ls -l<\/code> command from within Terminal, your files look like this:
\n
\n-rw-r--r-- 1 baron users 85 Aug 10 01:42 Audio CD:5
\n<\/code>
\nYou know from this tip<\/a> that „baron“ represents the owner of the file and that „users“ is the group to which baron belongs. But until BeOS goes multi-user, the notion of file ownership is sort of an oxymoron. Still, to maintain POSIX compliance, BeOS needs to show someone<\/i> as the owner. For now, that person is Baron, and you can see his record company and his bunny here<\/a>.
\nIf you’re sick of looking at Baron’s name and want to replace it with your own, look in \/boot\/home\/config\/boot for a file called UserSetupEnvironmentSample and rename it as UserSetupEnvironment. Open it in an editor and add these two lines:
\n
\nexport USER=yourname
\nexport GROUP=yourgroupname
\n<\/code>
\nSave and close. Now either reboot, or type
\n source ~\/config\/boot\/UserSetupEnvironment<\/code>
\nGet another long format directory listing and you’ll see that you now own your own damn files.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every time you run an ls -l command from within Terminal, your files look like this: -rw-r–r– 1 baron users 85 Aug 10 01:42 Audio CD:5 You know from this tip that „baron“ represents the owner of the file and that „users“ is the group to which baron belongs. But until BeOS goes multi-user, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-terminal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}