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Hi folks,
On running following command
# ls -al Working/ | grep blfs
Code:
-rw-rw-r-- 1 1000 users 28619 Sep 10 2005 blfs_build_050909a.txt
What does "1000 users" refer to. How ...
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What is "1000 users"
Hi folks,
On running following command
# ls -al Working/ | grep blfsWhat does "1000 users" refer to. How it came to user=1000 group=users?Code:-rw-rw-r-- 1 1000 users 28619 Sep 10 2005 blfs_build_050909a.txt
TIA
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If that's your desktop computer and you're using it at home, then something strange is going on! Maybe you're on a network at a college or university??
Or perhaps there are more people living in your house than you think
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Re: What is "1000 users"
unix in geral does not use names to I.D users, Users are reconised by a number. Ill give ye an example. Say if my user has the users ID of 1004 and i access a NFS share, and I access a file that is owned by user 1004. It does not matter if the user on the other system is known as Slartibartfast.
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its quite a security hole if you dont cover it with kerberos or somtihng
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But if its a home network then its not that important Originally Posted by variant All i want for christmas is a new liver....a second chance to get afflicted with Cirrhosis
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It's not really that important for your home use - if you have copied some file from another machine and it's preserved user attributes, then you will see things like this.
Try adding a user to /etc/passwd with the user ID of 1000, and it'll list that username when you do an ls -l...Linux user #126863 - see http://linuxcounter.net/
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uid=1000 is a common starting point for regular user accounts.
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Hi folks,
Tks for your advice.
I became aware of such thing on copying files from FC3, the host, to BLFS 6.1 and vice versa (on running BLFS). It was not on chroot only mounting /dev/hda6 (/mnt/lfs). After copying the owner and group of the files were changed to "number" and "users". The files can't be edited as "read" only. I must change them back. Is there a solution?
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How did you copy the files? If you did it from a tar or cpio archive as root then the user and group IDs will be propagated - the userid on the archive obviously was 1000, which doesn't exist on your system. As root, chown the user and group to something that'll have write permissions and you're done! Originally Posted by satimis
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Hi scm,
The property of the files before copied to /mnt/lfs were "satimis:satimis"(user:user). As rootHow did you copy the files? If you did it from a tar or cpio archive as root then the user and group IDs will be propagated....
# cp /path/to/files /mnt/lfs/home/user/
Previously I did not recognize that the property of those files changed. Untill recently I discovered those files copied to BLFS 6.1 were "read only"
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