diff -urp fileutils-4.1.7.orig/configure.ac fileutils-4.1.7-ls-author/configure.ac
--- fileutils-4.1.7.orig/configure.ac	Sun Mar 31 08:10:32 2002
+++ fileutils-4.1.7-ls-author/configure.ac	Sun Mar 31 08:11:04 2002
@@ -45,6 +45,8 @@ if test $fu_cv_sys_truncating_statfs = y
 fi
 AC_MSG_RESULT($fu_cv_sys_truncating_statfs)
 
+AC_CHECK_MEMBERS([struct stat.st_author])
+
 jm_LIB_CHECK
 
 AM_GNU_GETTEXT
diff -urp fileutils-4.1.7.orig/src/ls.c fileutils-4.1.7-ls-author/src/ls.c
--- fileutils-4.1.7.orig/src/ls.c	Sun Mar 31 08:10:32 2002
+++ fileutils-4.1.7-ls-author/src/ls.c	Tue Apr  2 19:07:30 2002
@@ -461,6 +461,11 @@ static int sort_reverse;
 
 static int print_owner = 1;
 
+#if HAVE_STRUCT_STAT_ST_AUTHOR
+/* Nonzero means to display author information.*/
+static int print_author = 0;
+#endif
+
 /* Nonzero means to display group information.  -G and -o turn this off.  */
 
 static int print_group = 1;
@@ -707,6 +712,9 @@ enum
   SI_OPTION,
   SORT_OPTION,
   TIME_OPTION,
+#if HAVE_STRUCT_STAT_ST_AUTHOR
+  AUTHOR_OPTION,
+#endif
   TIME_STYLE_OPTION
 };
 
@@ -747,6 +755,9 @@ static struct option const long_options[
   {"time-style", required_argument, 0, TIME_STYLE_OPTION},
   {"color", optional_argument, 0, COLOR_OPTION},
   {"block-size", required_argument, 0, BLOCK_SIZE_OPTION},
+#if HAVE_STRUCT_STAT_ST_AUTHOR
+  {"author", no_argument, 0, AUTHOR_OPTION},
+#endif
   {GETOPT_HELP_OPTION_DECL},
   {GETOPT_VERSION_OPTION_DECL},
   {NULL, 0, NULL, 0}
@@ -1494,6 +1505,13 @@ decode_switches (int argc, char **argv)
 	    format = one_per_line;
 	  break;
 
+#if HAVE_STRUCT_STAT_ST_AUTHOR
+	case AUTHOR_OPTION:
+	  format = long_format;
+	  print_author = 1;
+	  break;
+#endif
+
 	case SORT_OPTION:
 	  sort_type = XARGMATCH ("--sort", optarg, sort_args, sort_types);
 	  sort_type_specified = 1;
@@ -2834,6 +2852,19 @@ print_long_format (const struct fileinfo
       p += strlen (p);
     }
 
+#if HAVE_STRUCT_STAT_ST_AUTHOR
+  if (print_author)
+    {
+      char const *author_name = 
+	(numeric_ids ? NULL : getuser (f->stat.st_author));
+      if (author_name)
+	sprintf (p, "%-8s ", author_name);
+      else
+	sprintf (p, "%-8lu ", (unsigned long) f->stat.st_author);
+      p += strlen (p);
+    }
+#endif
+
   if (S_ISCHR (f->stat.st_mode) || S_ISBLK (f->stat.st_mode))
     sprintf (p, "%3lu, %3lu ",
 	     (unsigned long) major (f->stat.st_rdev),
@@ -3586,6 +3617,11 @@ Mandatory arguments to long options are 
   -A, --almost-all           do not list implied . and ..\n\
   -b, --escape               print octal escapes for nongraphic characters\n\
 "), stdout);
+#if HAVE_STRUCT_STAT_ST_AUTHOR
+      fputs(_("\
+      --author               print the author of each file\n\
+"), stdout);
+#endif
       fputs (_("\
       --block-size=SIZE      use SIZE-byte blocks\n\
   -B, --ignore-backups       do not list implied entries ending with ~\n\