On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 07:24:13PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 01:10:33PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >> No problem, I'll rewrite this (after actually looking at the code this > >> time). However, at least on my machine, most of the files, especially in > >> /cygdrive/c, are owned by the Administrators group. If it's not in > >> /etc/passwd, most files show up with "????????" for the user, which is not > >> very informative... > > > >Sure but in this case the admins group is treated as a user since it's > >in the user entry of the file's security descriptor. > > > >I think we never get that right. The problem is that the ls entries > >only are 8 chars long, not enough to be really informative. Whatever > >you put in there ("unknown", "????????", "mkpasswd", "run mkpa", > >"dumbass"), you will deterministically get confused users. > > Hey. "dumbass". That may be the best suggstion yet. I'd definitely > want to get rid of that if I saw it! I'd probably spend some time > researching how to do it. > > I like it! > cgf
Hey, getting back to my "ls" idea - how about a flashing bright white "dumbass" on a red background? That's bound to get anyone's attention :-D Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Oh, boy, virtual memory! Now I'm gonna make myself a really *big* RAMdisk! -- /usr/games/fortune