On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 09:50:13AM -0400, Warren Lamboy wrote: > <<Complains about unrecognized user, group IDs>> > ... > 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). First, please recall that the numeric userid/groupid is the REAL owner/group of a filesystem object; it's a courtesy to weak human memories that Unix/Linux associates these numbers with the names in /etc/passwd and etc/group. > Can someone tell me how these ids might be getting assigned to files and > directories on this system? If you've a userid/groupid that doesn't map to one in the passwd/group file, it most likely resulted from something like unpacking a tar file from a foreign system as root. In such a case, the original userid/groupid from the foreign system will be retained. Whenever you encounter such files and/or directories, determine who SHOULD own them and use chown to reassign ownership. AFAIK, there's no specific tool to identify such filesystem objects--probably because slapping a script together to traverse the filesystem and find them is pretty trivial. G'luck, -- Dave Ihnat ignatz@xxxxxxxxxx -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
