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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: File Ownership change
Message-ID: <1991Jun06.214706.26050@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 6 Jun 91 21:47:06 GMT
References: <1991Jun5.154641.31@esvax.hamavnet.com>
Organization: Chinet - Chicago Public Access UNIX
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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.

Sounds like you have read permission on /etc/passwd and he doesn't.  That's
where ls has to look to find the owner's name from the uid associated
with the file.

Les Mikesell
  les@chinet.chi.il.us