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RE: group passwd who last (three questions)
- To: gnuwin32 <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>, "'Jon Byron Davis'" <fiat_owner at yahoo dot com>
- Subject: RE: group passwd who last (three questions)
- From: Sergey Okhapkin <sos at prospect dot com dot ru>
- Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 10:16:49 +0300
Jon Byron Davis wrote:
> I made mkgroup -l > /etc/group and mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd but
> some stuff seems wrong:
>
> a) A lot of my files seem to belong to some fellow with UID 544.
> I don't have a user 544 on this system. When I make a new file,
> the owner becomes Mr. 544, regardless of who I am when I first
> touch it. Is this some UN*X thing that I just don't know about?
It's a strange "feature" of Windows NT - if owner/creator of file is a
member of "Administrators" group, the file is owned by "Administrators"
(UID 544), but not by particular user. I know no work-arounds for this.
--
Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
Moscow, Russia
Looking for a job.
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