Re: files' owner changes on its own (fixed, I think)

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From: Mark Adler
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1992 17:47

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It appears that I have fixed my spontaneous-owner-changing problem.
I did too many things to be sure what fixed it, but I believe the
crux of the solution was to change the hostname on the external
disk label to match the hostname of the computer.  I suspect that
the operating system did not "trust" an external drive with a
different hostname in the label, and so would make the owners of
the files something less threatening than root.  It might have also
been important to make the owner of the drive also be root.  It was
definitely essential that the drive be dismounted and then mounted
again.

Mark Adler
madler@cco.caltech.edu

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Subject: Re: files' owner changes on its own (fixed, I think)
Date: 9 Oct 1992 17:47:10 GMT
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