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From: newsham@lava.net (Tim Newsham)
Subject: [Unix-jun72] File ownerships
Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 07:13:21 -1000 (HST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.4.64.0805060712070.20114@malasada.lava.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080506095920.GA36926@minnie.tuhs.org>

> 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/



  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-06 17:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-06  9:59 Warren Toomey
2008-05-06 17:13 ` Tim Newsham [this message]
2008-05-06 17:19   ` Michael Kerpan
2008-05-06 22:37   ` Warren Toomey

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