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Re: How to properly set up /etc/passwd and /etc/group


Dave Korn wrote:
On 01/03/2010 05:05, Wes Barris wrote:

What I normally end up doing is to list the directory with the '-n'
option that shows me the uid and gid information (in this case
both are 4294967295.  I manually edit the /etc/passwd and /etc/group
files accordingly so that my directory listing looks like this:

drwxrwxrwt+ 1 wes admin 0 2010-01-10 17:13 Projects

That suggests you set your uid and gid to 4294967295, aka -1, aka 'nobody'; that's probably not a good thing.

Hi Dave,


I changed my uid an gid in my passwd file to 4294967295 because that
is what ls -ln showed.  If that is not a good thing to do what is
the right thing to do?

    cheers,
      DaveK


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