From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: newsham@lava.net (Tim Newsham) Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 07:13:21 -1000 (HST) Subject: [Unix-jun72] File ownerships In-Reply-To: <20080506095920.GA36926@minnie.tuhs.org> References: <20080506095920.GA36926@minnie.tuhs.org> Message-ID: > 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/