From: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com (Earnie Boyd)
Subject: Re: B20: chmod @#?!*%
10 Nov 1998 06:46:23 -0800
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To: JJ Streicher-Bremer <jj AT digisle DOT net>, John Mullee <john AT exmachina DOT net>
Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

I'm not attempting to solve any problems, just adding to it:

the commands `id -a', `touch /tmp/myfile; ls -ln /tmp/myfile',
`mkpasswd -l' all return something different for userid/groupid !!!


---JJ Streicher-Bremer <jj AT digisle DOT net> wrote:
>
> I believe 544 is the local administrators group.  In NT any file
created
> by someone in the local administrators group is owned by the
> administrators group.
> 
> >   14 -r-xr-xr-x   1 544      everyone    26800 Oct 14  1996
NTDETECT.COM*
> >    0 drwxr-xr-x   3 administ Domain U        0 Nov  3 00:35 cygnus/
> >   --snip--
> >  (what's '544' ? not an NT group-id or user-id))

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