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From: jbdavis AT mit DOT edu (Jon Byron Davis)
Subject: RE: group passwd who last (three questions)
6 Feb 1998 23:28:53 -0800 :
Message-ID: <34DC0739.80910E4A.cygnus.gnu-win32@mit.edu>
Reply-To: fiat_owner AT yahoo DOT com
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To: gnuwin32 <gnu-win32 AT cygnus 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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