> 
> On Tue, 6 May 1997 15:21:52 -0400 (EDT) 
>  Jeffrey Ohlmann <jaohlma@bgnet.bgsu.edu> wrote:
> 
>  > I just noticed that the apparent "owner" of my kernel seems to have
>  > changed, though I cannot recall what it originally was.  Right now ls -al
>  > shows me
>  > 
>  > -rwxr-xr-x  1  200  wheel  1290586  Feb 26  18:48  nebsd
> 
> ...it should be uid 0

Correct, as otherwise user 200 could change the kernel and do all sorts
of bad stuff (like make a kernel which lets user 200 have root access...).
On a mono-user home machine, it probably doesn't matter.

>  > I've probed around the master.passwd and also etc/group (even though the
>  > group id is not a problem) but I didn't see a 200 anywhere. Everything
>  > else appears to have a correct owner and I have found no other files or
>  > directories owned by 200.

I bet this is one of the GENERIC distributed kernels. If you looked on
the machine which compiled the kernel, though, you would find a user
200. :-)

Take care,

Bill