From: sos@prospect.com.ru (Sergey Okhapkin) Subject: RE: group passwd who last (three questions) 5 Feb 1998 00:05:15 -0800 Message-ID: <01BD321F.2CA0E9C0.cygnus.gnu-win32@gater.krystalbank.msk.ru> To: gnuwin32 , "'Jon Byron Davis'" 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. - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".