log file for ownership

[krekon]

Hi

I have changed the ownership of my ftp directory (I use vsftp) and I want to now to change ownership to the first one, but I don't know who was the owner.

Is there any log file that keeps the changes of ownership for folders?

Or do you know who is the owner for vsftp?

What exactly I care is not the owner but group that foldr ftp belongs ( the owner is root I thing so)

The problem on connecting to my ftp is the following message:
500 OOPS: cannot locate user entry:nobody



Thanks a lot

[iwanabeguru]

give the ownership to the nobody user ,its a special system user without
home directory

[krekon]

Well I deleted by fault the account nobody!

I found your post about it.
this

http://209.85.135.104/search?q=cache...3&client=opera

But I don't understand what I have to do to bring back the nobody account

thanks for your help

[iwanabeguru]

in a terminal as root
#>useradd -c nobody -d /nonexistent -g nogroup -s /bin/false -u 65534 nobody

[krekon]

this is the result

useradd: unknown group nogroup


Probably I have also deleted the group no group.

Is there any special parameters to use in order to create the group nogroup?

[krekon]

I'm still searching but nothing yet. If you know something please help me

[iwanabeguru]

try recreate the group nogroup with gid 65534

as root
#>addgroup nogroup 65534

and recreate the nobody account
#>useradd -c nobody -d /nonexistent -g nogroup -s /bin/false -u 65534 nobody