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From: greg@ncr-tp.UUCP (Greg Noel)
Newsgroups: net.news.b
Subject: Re: USG inews 2.10.2 creates root-owned directories
Message-ID: <111@ncr-tp.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 7-Dec-84 20:55:57 EST
Article-I.D.: ncr-tp.111
Posted: Fri Dec  7 20:55:57 1984
Date-Received: Sun, 9-Dec-84 05:40:50 EST
References: <248@desint.UUCP> <330@wnuxb.UUCP>
Reply-To: greg@ncr-tp.UUCP (Greg Noel)
Organization: NCR Corporation, Torrey Pines
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Summary: 

> Under 2.10.2 on a USG system, my inews seems to create new groups with their
> directories owned by 'root'.
> 
> 	Geoff Kuenning

I suspect that "inews" is being run with the effective UID not the same as
the real UID.  In this case, "mkdir" will create directories owned by the
real UID instead of the expected effective UID.  There doesn't seem to be
any way around this.
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-- Greg Noel, NCR Torrey Pines       Greg@ncr-tp.UUCP or Greg@nosc.ARPA