On 25-Jan-2002 ae roy wrote: > I suddenly noticed when I wanted to recompile my kernel, which lies in > /home/kernel/linux that I suddenly didn't have permissions in that directory > anymore, although root in the past had done a chown in that directory giving > it to the normal user. I used to have permissions, but something has changed. > It now belongs to user with the uid 1000. There is no user with that uid, my > users starts at 1001! Can someone shed some light on my problem? >
a recent upload of base-passwd swaps the uid and gid of every user in your passwd file. See the subject 'Warning: Do NOT upgrade base-passwd'.
