File Ownership change
Barry Margolin
barmar at think.com
Fri Jun 7 06:09:56 AEST 1991
In article <1991Jun5.154641.31 at esvax.hamavnet.com> young at esvax.hamavnet.com writes:
>I am running a Unix System V machine based on the Motorola 88K. When I create
>a new user with login in id of ted, I can (as super user) look at his directory
>ls -ali and can see that ted owns the files. However, when ted logs in and
>looks at his files (.profile) the owner is the user id i.e. 100 and NOT ted.
I'm assuming ted's uid is 100.
Check the permissions on /etc/passwd -- make sure everyone has read access
to it. This file is used to translate the numeric uid into a user name.
--
Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp.
barmar at think.com
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