Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 11:13:08 -0700 From: Ian <freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org> To: Bri <brian@ukip.com>, <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: chowning problem or somthing... Message-ID: <B8B39344.B026%freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <NEBBKKNOEKKNLLNMEOHFEEFOGLAA.brian@ukip.com>
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> %pwd > /usr/home > %chown testuser4:staff testuser4/ > %ls -l | grep testuser4 > drwxr-xr-x 2 testuser3 staff 512 Feb 21 15:06 testuser4 > %whoami > root > %uname -r > 4.5-RELEASE > > > // Notice how its still owned as testuser3 when I chowned it as testuser4 > should own testuser4's directory maybe it does but the ls command isn't > displaying it properly I'm not sure is not really a problem to me but its > weird. It could be also something to do with me having testuser and > testuser2 + 3 & 4 in the same directory. Check your passwd file -- any chance you got the same uid number assigned to testuser3 and testuser4? ls and most other tools will translate uid number->name based on the first occurance of the number they find in the file. -- Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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