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From: rodney@tyrell.stgt.sub.org (Rodney Volz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: File Ownership change
Message-ID: <128237@tyrell.stgt.sub.org>
Date: 7 Jun 91 17:03:06 GMT
References: <1991Jun5.154641.31@esvax.hamavnet.com>
Organization: Tyrell, Stuttgart (FRG)
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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.

$ chmod 644 /etc/passwd; chown root.sys /etc/passwd

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