This scenario commonly occurs when you download a tar (zip) file created
on a system which had a user 501.
You could always chown the file to your user to avoid the permissions issue:
sudo chown `whoami` filename (where "filename" is the name of
the file with the odd ownership. Note that those are backticks, not
single quotes.)
You can do a whole directory of files this way too:
sudo chown -R `whoami` directoryname
These both assume your user has "sudo" capabilities. Otherwise you would
need to do this as the root user. (I recommend using sudo over doing
this as root.)
-Matt
KC2ZYS
On 02/12/2013 03:12 PM, Jason KG4WSV wrote:
Unix doesn't store names, it stores user IDs (UID). The passwd file
is the map between usernames and UIDs.
You may be seeing a situation where the user who owned the file no
longer exists, but the file is still there. Since the file is there,
the old UID is still there.
-Jason
kg4wsv
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