On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 00:00 +1000, elliott-brennan wrote: > Now the CD says the images are owned by group 501 - but there isn't a > group id of 501????
Just because a group id isn't listed in your groups file doesn't mean it doesn't exist. It just means it doesn't have a name or any members. :-) > I then tried to make a group 501 and myself as a member but to no avail. Probably a stupid question, but did you log out and back in after doing this? Changes to group membership only affect new login shells. Probably another stupid question, but is the root user able to read files off the CD? What filesystem is the CD? Check that by running mount on its own. The only thing I can think of is that it wasn't burned as ISO9660, and so the user and group ids of the original owner on the source machine are being used. If it's not iso9660, then have a look through the mount(8) man page for mount options relating to the filesystem it was burned as. Perhaps there's something there to set user and group ids for the mounted fs. g'luck! -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
