>Assume we have two machines, A and B, running the same version of Linux.
>
>A is a workstation, B is a server (with Samba share for the Mrs)
>
>On A, user 1 has a UID of 500, user 2 has a UID of 501
>On B, user 1 has a UID of 501, user 2 has a UID of 500
>
>When user 1 goes to B:/home/user1, all files are owned by user1:users.
>
>When you TELNET to B from A, user1's files are suddenly owned by user2 ?
When the file was created on B:/home/user1 from A, the uid given to the
file was 500. Remember that the filesystem only stores numbers, no
names. As long as you work on the machine you created the file on,
you're ok.
Now you go to B and do a ls. The uid is 500 and this displays as user2
using B's /etc/passwd (or equivalent).
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