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In article <RGA59O9@ggpc2.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>Huh? It's hard to determine the login name, but it's easy enough to determine
>if you've got the same user ID as a known login (such as the news owner).

From C; it's decidedly awkward from the shell.  And we made a decision some
time ago that we are not especially interested in defending ourselves against
sysadmins who don't know what they're doing.  (We rate ignorance of basic
notions of file ownership and permissions as such.)

>Or do what I do, chown all the files after creating them.

Apart from being a nuisance, this assumes that there is a portable syntax
for chown, which there isn't.  I wish it were otherwise.
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