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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] fs administration: how do people update multi-user fs?
In-Reply-To: Message from Christopher Nielsen <cnielsen@pobox.com>
   of "Fri, 14 Feb 2003 18:56:41 PST." <20030215025641.GK73079@cassie.foobarbaz.net>
From: Scott Schwartz <schwartz@bio.cse.psu.edu>
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 22:13:15 -0500
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| Why do you need to assign them to be owned by sys?
| I find it better to be owned by the person that
| made the changes. Better for tracking who made
| changes to what last.

The fileserver has a field for last-person; that's a different idea
than owner.

On a system with lots of users, maybe you want important files to be
owned by a virtual user in case one of the humans leaves and their
account gets deleted or otherwise needs to have it's power reduced.