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Thanks a lot for the reply!

but is there no way by which we can get the login id of the user who last modified a file? That sounds really wierd!


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by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jun 30, 2008 at 18:43 UTC
    but is there no way by which we can get the login id of the user who last modified a file?

    That information is simply not recorded by standard file systems. It might be recorded by some specialist journaling filesystems, but I do not know of any.


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