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From: mughal@iago.caltech.edu (Mughal, Asim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Ownership problems?
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Date: 15 Nov 90 21:56:58 GMT
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howdy folks,

We have Apollo DN4500 showing some of the files in /user as following;

(eg)
-rwxrwxrwx+   1 -1        543 Aug 7 1990 esmsim.prm*

and other files as ;

-rwxrwxrwx+   1 none      213 Aug 7 1990 ps*   

etc etc.

I have been told that "-1" represents "no owner". The users can not look 
at this file only 'root'. I went ahead and changed the ownerships back 
to 'none' and now these can be accessed by the users. I would like to 
know what is causing this problem?? Is it a warning of degrading files??
How can this be avoided in future? Suggestions ??

Asim Mughal
System Administrator
Jet Propulsion Lab, Sec. 3363
California Institute of Technology

MUGHAL @ CALTECH.EDU
mughal @ Iago.Caltech.Edu