Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 23:44:52 -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: <D4A3ED06-5F5E-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 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
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