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From: jj AT digisle DOT net (JJ Streicher-Bremer)
Subject: Re: B20.1: domain UID problem
2 Jan 1999 17:50:35 -0800 :
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.990102123107.10581B-100000.cygnus.gnu-win32@guinness.digisle.net>
References: <000501be3248$aead0000$21c9ca95 AT mowp DOT siemens DOT ru>
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To: Andrej Borsenkow <borsenkow DOT msk AT sni DOT de>
Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

UID 544 translates into the local machines Administrators group. If you
are a member of the local Administrators group and you create a file, that
file is owned by the local group Administrators.  This is an NT 'ism and I
have found no way to defeat this.

Hope this helps
JJ

On Mon, 28 Dec 1998, Andrej Borsenkow wrote:


> mkpasswd creates UID = 1006 but all files that I create get UID = 544. (Or
> may be, it is stat that reports wrong info).

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