I am responsible for a RedHat system running kernel 2.4.21-32.0.1.EL. I am curious about something I am seeing on this system, namely that when I do an "ls -l" on some directories I am finding files and subdirectories that have owners and groups that I did not set up and whose ids do not show up when I look users and groups with Red Hat User Manager (/usr/bin/redhat-config-users). For example I have some directories owned by userid = 608 and groupid=20012. Neither of these are valid according to Red Hat User Manager (with no filter on the user and group list). Can someone tell me how these ids might be getting assigned to files and directories on this system? Is there a way for me to do a general system search for such ids? I raise this issue because some users seem to be having trouble accessing the directories and files having this owner and group (and other "invalid" groups and owners). Thanks for any insights you may have. - Warren Lamboy P.S. In case it matters, I should mention that many such files and directories are ones that some of my users have downloaded from Internet sites. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
