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 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: gnuwin32 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. -- Jon Byron Davis 617.629.4194 88 Concord Ave. #2 jbdavis AT mit DOT edu Somerville, MA 02143 fiat_owner AT yahoo DOT com "We saw shadows of the morning light -- shadows of the evening sun" - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".