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From: davew@gvgpsa.UUCP (Dave White)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Ultrix 1.2 uudecode file owner problem
Message-ID: <492@gvgpsa.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 3-Jul-87 11:53:27 EDT
Article-I.D.: gvgpsa.492
Posted: Fri Jul  3 11:53:27 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 5-Jul-87 21:21:10 EDT
References: <644@uhccux.UUCP>
Reply-To: davew@gvgpsa.UUCP (Dave White)
Organization: Grass Valley Group, Inc., Grass Valley, CA
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In article <644@uhccux.UUCP> david@uhccux.UUCP (David Lassner) writes:
>Ultrix 1.2 uudecode insists on creating files with root as the owner.  Is there
>a common solution that we're missing?  We don't have sources.
>-- 

Ultrix 1.2, as distributed, has uudecode file permissions set as 4755
(set UID on execution).  Do a "chmod 755 uudecode" while logged in as
root and this should solve your problem.
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