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RE: group passwd who last (three questions)


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.

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