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fifi@hiss.han.de (Axel Zinser) writes:

 >I just connect my old 105-MB hard disk as a second disk to my NeXTstation.
 >All worked fine up to the moment I recognized that the ownership of all
 >files had been changed to fifi.nogroup (my own id is fifi.fifi). I restored
 >the ownership, checked it and continued working. After a while I again
 >looked for the files on the second hard disk and - damned - the ownership
 >had been changed to fifi.nogroup again.... Can anyone tell me, why that
 >happens and/or which task does it? (I'll kill it :-))

I noticed something similar a while ago.  I attached an external
drive to my machine and found that whenever I logged in I owned every 
file on the external drive.  If I logged in as root then root owned
every file on the external drive.  This was confusing to say the
least.  What I found, though, was that NeXTStep mounted the external
disk when I logged in.  Thus, it made sense that I owned it since my
login shell mounted it.  i fixed this by making an entry in
/etc/fstab so that the Next mounted the External drive when it
booted. 

I hope this helps solve your problem,

jamie
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Jamie O'Keefe		FTP Software, Inc.	Technical Support