Unix doesn't store names, it stores user IDs (UID). The passwd file is the map between usernames and UIDs.
You may be seeing a situation where the user who owned the file no longer exists, but the file is still there. Since the file is there, the old UID is still there. -Jason kg4wsv _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
