Date: Sat, 6 May 1995 05:56:31 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: dunser@msmailgw.sdsmt.edu (Unser, Danny) Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 950412-SNAP Message-ID: <199505060356.FAA29560@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <2FAAA55E@msmail.sdsmt.edu> from "Unser, Danny" at May 5, 95 04:22:00 pm
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As Unser, Danny wrote: > > > I've recently installed the 2.0-950412-SNAP shot of FreeBSD. > The problem I'm running into is changing the ownership of directories and > files in the /usr/home directory. > The only owner I can change the files or directories to are something > other than another user. Say changing the owner of the directory of > /usr/home/kunser to kunser isn't allowed, it changes it to dunser > instead. What's the deal here. Changing ownership is only allowed for the super-user. Remember that the ownership is stored numerically, so if your password file contains 3 user entries with different names but identical UIDs, you'll always see the files mapped to the user with the name where the UID is first appearing in the passwd file. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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