From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 10 12:28:56 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6571916A4CE for ; Tue, 10 Feb 2004 12:28:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from praetor.linc-it.com (adsl-068-157-070-217.sip.jan.bellsouth.net [68.157.70.217]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37D2F43D2F for ; Tue, 10 Feb 2004 12:28:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fullermd@over-yonder.net) Received: from mortis.over-yonder.net (adsl-81-244-89.jan.bellsouth.net [65.81.244.89]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by praetor.linc-it.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA7B6155E0; Tue, 10 Feb 2004 14:28:54 -0600 (CST) Received: by mortis.over-yonder.net (Postfix, from userid 100) id C25C520F95; Tue, 10 Feb 2004 14:28:52 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 14:28:52 -0600 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: Harti Brandt Message-ID: <20040210202852.GH89781@over-yonder.net> References: <4025A0DD.2010607@acm.org> <20040208134125.L28775@beagle.fokus.fraunhofer.de> <20040209122341.S32427@beagle.fokus.fraunhofer.de> <4027D62F.3010702@acm.org> <20040210113002.X36327@beagle.fokus.fraunhofer.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040210113002.X36327@beagle.fokus.fraunhofer.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i-fullermd.1 X-Editor: vi X-OS: FreeBSD cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org cc: Tim Kientzle Subject: Re: Odd ACL question X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 20:28:56 -0000 On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 11:38:46AM +0100 I heard the voice of Harti Brandt, and lo! it spake thus: > > So if you restore a backup that is say, half a year old, you may > well have files that belong to no known user, even if restoring to > the same system. > > I suppose that mapping them to a well known user (not necessarily > 'nobody') and doing some clever 'find' afterwards would find these > files. find -nouser -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet"