File Ownership change

[Barry Margolin]

In article <1991Jun5.154641.31 at esvax.hamavnet.com> young at 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.

I'm assuming ted's uid is 100.

Check the permissions on /etc/passwd -- make sure everyone has read access
to it.  This file is used to translate the numeric uid into a user name.
-- 
Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp.

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