From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 25 23:45:14 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D20237B404 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 23:45:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from pursued-with.net (adsl-66-125-9-242.dsl.sndg02.pacbell.net [66.125.9.242]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C24443F3F for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 23:45:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net) Received: from pursued-with.net (fffinch [192.168.168.101]) by pursued-with.net (8.12.6/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h2Q7iqs7062191; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 23:45:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 23:44:52 -0800 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v551) To: Matthew Seaman From: Kevin Stevens In-Reply-To: <20030326072922.GA5568@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.551) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-16.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_APPLEMAIL autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: File owner name not updated. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 07:45:15 -0000 X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 07:45:15 -0000 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 tried running that after creating a dummy user and changing his uid from 1005 to 1010. No change. > 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";' bash-2.05b# perl -e 'print scalar getpwuid(1010), "\n";' fred bash-2.05b# perl -e 'print scalar getpwuid(1005), "\n";' fred bash-2.05b# grep fred /etc/master.passwd fred:*:1010:1005:User &:/home/fred:/bin/sh KeS