From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 20 01:37:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id BAA24195 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 01:37:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from mail.netcetera.dk (sleipner.netcetera.dk [194.192.97.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA24180 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 01:36:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from leifn@darla.swimsuit.roskildebc.dk) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by mail.netcetera.dk (8.8.7/8.8.7) with UUCP id KAA21793 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 10:32:33 +0100 Received: by swimsuit.roskildebc.dk (0.99.970109) id AA07269; 20 Nov 97 10:32:20 +0100 From: leifn@darla.swimsuit.roskildebc.dk (Leif Neland) Date: 20 Nov 97 10:24:38 +0100 Subject: root != userid 0?!? Message-ID: <386_9711201032@swimsuit.roskildebc.dk> Organization: Fidonet: UNIX-sysadm søger job To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk One system can not translate user id 0 to the text "root" e.g. if I do a ls -l on a file owned by root, its ownership gets shown as "0 wheel", while another file might be "bin bin". vi also complains it can't put a name on 0 for a restore-copy. I can do a "chown root somefile" the /etc/passwd-file are identical to the /etc/passwd on another system where it works: the userid is 0:0 What am I supposed to look for? Leif Neland leifn@image.dk --- |Fidonet: Leif Neland 2:234/49 |Internet: leifn@image.dk