chien-yu chen wrote:
>
> well, I graduated this May, and my account is expired on 9/30. However,
> on the night of 9/29, I logged into cs machine, keep pine running so the
> server would not kick me out. and observe what'll happen. turns out that
> after 9/30, my user account is deleted, but my home directory is still
> there. and I am logged in without a name (if I do a whoami). and all the
> file in my directory has owner of 5807, so I guess I am off the
> /etc/passwd file. I am planning on keep myself logged in and see what'll
> happen..but does anyone have this kind of stuff happened before?
Yeah, if the system doesn't have a username to go with a userid, then
all files previously owned by that user show up with a number for the
owner (the user id). This is why sometimes when you download a source
tar.gz the files have owner/group set to some (seemingly) random number.
The userid of the person who created them does not exist on your machine
so there is no corresponding username. Your active processes should run
until they try and access the passwd database to find there is no active
user with your id. Your files will stay there until the administrators
archive/delete them. They could even add a new user with the same id
(5807) and all the files you left would then be owned by the new user!
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