From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri May 5 20:57:50 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id UAA22257 for bugs-outgoing; Fri, 5 May 1995 20:57:50 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id UAA22249 for ; Fri, 5 May 1995 20:57:38 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA15889; Sat, 6 May 1995 05:57:21 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id FAA20034; Sat, 6 May 1995 05:57:21 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id FAA29560; Sat, 6 May 1995 05:56:31 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199505060356.FAA29560@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: 950412-SNAP To: dunser@msmailgw.sdsmt.edu (Unser, Danny) Date: Sat, 6 May 1995 05:56:31 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <2FAAA55E@msmail.sdsmt.edu> from "Unser, Danny" at May 5, 95 04:22:00 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 917 Sender: bugs-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Unser, Danny wrote: > > > I've recently installed the 2.0-950412-SNAP shot of FreeBSD. > The problem I'm running into is changing the ownership of directories and > files in the /usr/home directory. > The only owner I can change the files or directories to are something > other than another user. Say changing the owner of the directory of > /usr/home/kunser to kunser isn't allowed, it changes it to dunser > instead. What's the deal here. Changing ownership is only allowed for the super-user. Remember that the ownership is stored numerically, so if your password file contains 3 user entries with different names but identical UIDs, you'll always see the files mapped to the user with the name where the UID is first appearing in the passwd file. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)