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From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: File Ownership change
Message-ID: <1991Jun6.200956.14606@Think.COM>
Date: 6 Jun 91 20:09:56 GMT
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In article <1991Jun5.154641.31@esvax.hamavnet.com> young@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.

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