No. If a person has write permissions in a directory, the file is still owned by them. In most development situations that utilize a shared directory, the directory will be chmod g+s, which will make the group of each file created in that directory match that of the directory (can subsequently be chmod'ed to a different group). You might want to investigate what groups the user was in, and start searching for user's UID within those user's home directories. -- Chris Faehl Hosting Manager, RightNow Technologies -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ryan Golhar Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 12:37 PM To: 'General Red Hat Linux discussion list' Subject: RE: Quotas and deleted users The /home partition is on one machine being NFS shared to a bunch of others. There are no copies except on a backup server, but the transfer to backup is one-way. I thought that the files might be in someone else's directory, but doesn't the permission of the file automatically get set to the owner of the directory? The only other thing I can think of is that the quota file needs to be recreated... Ryan -----Original Message----- From: Faehl, Chris [mailto:cfaehl@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 2:17 PM To: golharam@xxxxxxxxx; General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: RE: Quotas and deleted users Are you using snapshots that might still have old copies of his home directory somewhere? Alternately, he may have files squirreled away down some other user's directory, particularly if he was a member of a development group that operated on a common tree. -- Chris Faehl Hosting Manager, RightNow Technologies -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ryan Golhar Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 12:12 PM To: 'General Red Hat Linux discussion list' Subject: Quotas and deleted users I recently deleted a user from our system (including his home directory) and used 'repquota' to report all user's quota stats. His entry is still listed there, but instead of his username being displayed, its his old user ID. Why is he still listed even though his home directory has been removed? The only place quotas are enabled is on /home which is NFS exported. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
