From BIOSCI-REQUEST@net.bio.net  Mon Mar 27 10:57:09 1995
To: acedb@net.bio.net
From: matthews@greengenes.cit.cornell.edu ("Dave Matthews")
Subject: Re: can't get Write Access in ACEDB
Date: 3 Mar 1995 07:29:18 -0800

> Date: Fri, 3 Mar 1995 14:49:17 GMT
> From: jld@bioch.ox.ac.uk (Joanne Dicks)
> To: matthews@greengenes.cit.cornell.edu
> Subject: Re: can't get Write Access in ACEDB
>
> Your problem sounds quite similar to one I had some months ago.
> In my case, there wasn't a problem with ACEDB itself but with
> the computer system. We had recently upgraded our operating
> system to Solaris and somehow my machine thought I was the
> person who had logged on before me. Typing "whoami" and
> "who am i" gave different results. I then added that person's
> username to passwd.wrm and everything was fine. I kept it like
> this until the system faults had been removed. It wasn't ideal
> but at least it worked.
>
> I hope this is something like your problem, or will give you
> an idea of what might be wrong.
>
> Jo Dicks
> Genetics Lab,
> Dept. of Biochemistry,
> Oxford.


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From BIOSCI-REQUEST@net.bio.net  Mon Mar 27 11:51:06 1995
To: acedb@net.bio.net
From: matthews@greengenes.cit.cornell.edu ("Dave Matthews")
Subject: Write-Access deja vu
Date: 27 Mar 1995 11:48:06 -0800

>I've never really had trouble getting "Write Access" to show up on the main
>menu before (since the first ACEDB I installed), but this time I'm stumped.
>...

For some reason bionet is just now posting this 3-week-old message of mine
to some locations.  Strange.

Anyway, in the interim I figured out yet another work-around.  In my case
Jo Dicks's "whoami" vs. "who i am" test turned out to be the most relevant.
Whenever I couldn't get Write Access, "who i am" didn't know who I was.
Usually it thought I was somebody else from /etc/passwd but once it thought
I was "telnet".  "whoami" was always correct.

The work-around was to create a new xterm window and try again.  Saying
"xterm" in a bad-who-i-am xterm window usually (always, I think) produced a
good-who-i-am window.

- Dave