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[Ian Scott <mriscott AT yahoo.co.uk>]

> 
> >> Is there something I need to do to let user do things like write to a 
> >> file
> >> in /home/user with pico?  I had to chmod Xvesa and SVGAlib (I think) so
> >> user could use those.  User is rather crippled.
> >
> > Your best way to do this is probably to make everything under /home/user 
> > be
> > owned by user:
> >
> > chown -R user /home/user
> >
> 
> Do you know why BL was not set up that way to start with?
> 
Because BL is single user.  How did you set up your user?
I would guess that either:
a) There is a bug in the way you set him up
b) He was created specifically as a user with low priveliges (e.g. for online 
work).
Obviously, if you go to the trouble of creating a user to use when online, you
want him to have very low priveleges so that if anyone else gets access to 
your
machine, they do so as that user, who can't do any damage.