From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 12 10:13:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from damnhippie.dyndns.org (12-253-177-2.client.attbi.com [12.253.177.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF45437B42B for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 10:13:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from [172.22.42.2] (peace.hippie.lan [172.22.42.2]) by damnhippie.dyndns.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g2CID6V01725; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 11:13:06 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org) User-Agent: Microsoft Outlook Express Macintosh Edition - 5.01 (1630) Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 11:13:08 -0700 Subject: Re: chowning problem or somthing... From: Ian To: Bri , Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > %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