Re: files' owner changes on its own

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From: Mark Adler
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1992 20:35

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I wrote:

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I created an ftp account (for anonymous ftp), and used chown (as root) to
change the owners of various directories and files.  However, after a
while (a few hours?) the owners change to "me" on their own!  Does
anyone know what in the system could be doing this, and why?  Thanks.
====

And I should add to that that this is not an auto-mounted external
drive.  It is an external drive mounted by an entry in fstab.  Also,
not all the files get their owner changed to "me"--only some.  I also
noticed an owner get changed from "ftp" to "zipper" (another user
name).  This is really rather mysterious.

Also, the time scale above of "a few hours" is really more like "a few
minutes".

Thanks again for any clues on this.

Mark Adler
madler@cco.caltech.edu

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