You can either sudo chown the files to any user on the system, or you can create a new user and group with that number (60004) for user id (uid) and group id (gid).
If you just create the same user on two systems they the user may have different uid and gid on each system and your situation would arise. -- Pat On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Michael <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Robbert van Andel wrote: > > I am working with a USB drive > supplied to us by a former contract company > > that contains a backup > of an Oracle databse. Looking at the file system, I > > see this: > > > > drwxr-xr-x 6 60004 60004 4096 Jan 25 2010 . > > > drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Feb 20 2007 .. > > drwxrwxrwx 4 60004 > 60004 4096 Dec 5 2007 6614448.992 > > -rw------- 1 60004 60004 16883 > Jan 25 2010 .bash_history > > -rw-r--r-- 1 60004 60004 901 Oct 23 > 2009 .bash_profile > > -rwxrwxrwx 1 60004 60004 424 Feb 1 2008 > check_patches1.sh > > -rwxrwxrwx 1 60004 60004 1220 Feb 1 2008 > check_patches2.sh > > As you can see, the owner and group are showing > just a number. My guess is > > this is the user id of the owner as it > existed on the original server. Is > > that correct? > > Correct. Names in text are, like DNS Hostnames, a convenience for > human beings. the numbers, be they UIDs, GIDs or IP Addrs are what count > to the machine. > > If you have access to the original server you can > check it. > > > > -- > Michael Rasmussen > > http://www.jamhome.us/ > Be Appropriate && Follow Your Curiosity > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- [email protected] www.timlick.com 503-476-3119 10990 NE Paren Springs Rd. Dundee OR 97115 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
