Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ncr-tp.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcc6!ncr-tp!greg 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 Lines: 11 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. -- -- Greg Noel, NCR Torrey Pines Greg@ncr-tp.UUCP or Greg@nosc.ARPA