On Sun, 2 Mar 1997 15:13:15 -0800 (PST),
wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu (Bill Studenmund) wrote:
> 
> > This confusion may be a part of the second question I had - if I have a
> > file owned by user1, and if, as root, I chown that file so that it's
> > owned by user2, it STILL is listed as being owned by user1. What's going
> > on there?
> 
> Either user1 and user2 have the same uid (bad), or some file somewhere
> is corrupted. Or something REALLY weird is up.

No, nothing's really weird _unless_ he tried to chown as root.

Ken