Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!sarah!sarah.albany.edu!bk7295 From: bk7295@csc.albany.edu (Brian A. Kell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: Re: /usr/people Message-ID: Date: 14 Feb 91 15:13:22 GMT References: <9102130954.aa03988@TBD2.BRL.MIL> Sender: bk7295@sarah.albany.edu (Brian A. Kell) Organization: State University of New York at Albany Lines: 21 In-Reply-To: glennrp@BRL.MIL's message of 13 Feb 91 14:54:01 GMT In article <9102130954.aa03988@TBD2.BRL.MIL> glennrp@BRL.MIL (Glenn Randers-Pehrson, TBD|WMB) writes: > > From: steve@CHAOS.OCEAN.FSU.EDU (Steve Van Gorder) > > I just noticed by accident today that /usr/people is owned by guest !?!? > > This doesn't seem like a good idea to me. Shouldn't it be owned by root? > > Good grief. I found the same situation. It was on a system > disc that I recently installed from scratch with the 3.3 installation > tapes. On another disc running 3.3.1, but originally delivered with 3.1F > and then upgraded to 3.3, the ownership is "root". On another system, > delivered with 3.2, the ownership is "bin". I presume under 4.0 "mail" > will be the owner. On our system (upgraded from 3.2.1 to 3.3.1) the ownership of /usr/people is the last new user I installed using the vadmin user tool! This sounds like a bug to me. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian Kell SUNY/Albany Department of Computer Science brian@isadora.albany.edu bk7295@csc.albany.edu bk7295@ALBNYVMS.BITNET -------------------------------------------------------------------------