> On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Horst von Brand wrote:
> > > The use of a config file to determine permissions/ownership is not foreign
> > > to the kernel or filesystems.
> > Name one use of configuration files for local permissions/ownership on
> > Unix/Linux.
>
> /etc/passwd, /etc/group
Those map numbers to names, the names aren't in the kernel.
Stephen
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