From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: madcrow.maxwell@gmail.com (Michael Kerpan) Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 13:19:47 -0400 Subject: [Unix-jun72] File ownerships In-Reply-To: References: <20080506095920.GA36926@minnie.tuhs.org> Message-ID: <8dd2d95c0805061019oe7bd924v22ba96f75e981f85@mail.gmail.com> Speaking of assigning some file ownerships to people who were historcially involved in created Unix back at that point in time, have we let any of them know about our successful ressurection? Maybe could get ken or dmr to write a "preface" to the readme file that will inevitably come into existance once we make together a "turnkey" distro of this for folks to play with in SIMH or something? On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Tim Newsham wrote: > > Now, I know that ken worked on the Fortran compiler, Joe Ossanna (jfo) > > wrote roff, and in V6 & V7, ken had uid 6 and dmr had uid 7. So I > > propose the following: > > > > - add ken == 6, dmr == 7, jfo == 4 to /etc/passwd and /etc/uids, as > > new files in fs/new. Thus jfo will own /bin/roff and ken will own > > /bin/cal > > - modify the permissions file so that the Fortran files which are > > uid 28 become uid 6 == ken. > > > > Sound reasonable? > > I don't mind some files being left "unowned", but if you're fairly > sure that the new ownership assignments reflected reality I'm not > opposed to having them changed in our patched system. > > > Warren > > Tim Newsham > http://www.thenewsh.com/~newsham/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Unix-jun72 mailing list > Unix-jun72 at tuhs.org > https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/unix-jun72 >