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RE: group passwd who last (three questions)
- To: gnuwin32 <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: RE: group passwd who last (three questions)
- From: Jon Byron Davis <jbdavis at mit dot edu>
- Date: Sat, 07 Feb 1998 02:03:21 -0500
- Organization: MIT
- Reply-To: fiat_owner at yahoo dot com
I guess that's just one more good reason for me to not log in on
my NT box as Administrator for non-administrative tasks!
Things seem to work pretty good. Maybe next week I'll start
tinkering with the build tools...
Thanks to all who replied!
Byron
Sergey wrote:
>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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