Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 23:35:42 -0800 From: Kevin Stevens <Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: File owner name not updated. Message-ID: <8C8C94D2-5F5D-11D7-95E4-000A959CEE6A@pursued-with.net> In-Reply-To: <20030326072922.GA5568@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi>
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On Tuesday, Mar 25, 2003, at 23:29 US/Pacific, Matthew Seaman wrote: > Two things occur to me: > > i) Did root use vipw(8) to edit the passwd database, or otherwise > run: > > # cap_mkdb /etc/master.passwd > > when the UID was changed? It's the value in the hashed > database cap_mkdb(1) builds that is used by the system. > Updating that should have instantaneous effect. Just used the pw command. However, note that this symptom persisted for over 24 hours. Last time it happened (on a 4.7 system) it persisted for several days if I recall, before I noticed/corrected it. > ii) You haven't said anything about what the source of your > password data is, which probably means you're just using the > flat file password database and not anything like NIS or LDAP. Correct. > If you are using a distributed database, then a degree of > latency while changes get propagated around the servers is to > be expected. However, that shouldn't take any more than a few > minutes in a well configured system. Right, and this is a standalone system (which is why I'm manually syncing up the uids in the first place). > The problem is not with the ls(1) command per se. It's the underlying > system library functions such as getpwuid(3) which do the translation > between numeric UIDs and usernames that are the seat of the problem. > You can see that by running some other command that uses getpwuid(3), > eg: > > % perl -e 'print scalar getpwuid(503), "\n";' Got it. I think what I'll do is create a dummy user with the same conditions and let it persist for awhile so we can experiment with it. KeS
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