From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Feb 29 13:58:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from zoe.qserve.net (zoe.qserve.net [207.250.219.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E09F37BAFA for ; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 13:58:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rch@qserve.net) Received: from acidic (acidic.qserve.net [207.250.219.40]) by zoe.qserve.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA10096; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 16:57:10 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.20000229170724.00ad28a0@qserve.net> X-Sender: rch@qserve.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 17:09:34 -0500 To: "John Saunders" , Krassimir Slavchev From: Robert Hough Subject: Re: adduser? Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20000229214923.8536.qmail@nhj.nlc.net.au> References: <38BA3DAA.363A8818@bulinfo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 08:49 AM 3/1/00 +1100, John Saunders wrote: >Suppose the username is fred.smith and the account is in a group called >customers. So you want to fix up the ownership permissions on his >directory when he mucks it up be playing around one day. You can get around that by using the uid and gid's instead of the actual names. chown uid.gid filename.txt As to the original question, I honestly don't remember... :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message