[Xastir] User 501

[Curt, WE7U]

On Tue, 12 Feb 2013, James Jolin wrote:

>>     $ cat /etc/passwd
>> 
> well I tried that and it was interesting , but it did not have any 501 users 
> in the cat output.  Am I missing something?

What's the user id (UID) for the user your normally use?  You must have created a new user than you were using before, or used a filesystem from a previous install of Linux that has a differnet list of user id's.

The way to fix it is to look at /etc/passwd and /etc/group find out what user & group you wish to own the files/directories, then do something like this:

     su
     cd /home
     chown -r <user>:<group> <name of directory>

i.e.  chown -r archer:users archer

FYI:  Linux/Unix will identify owners/groups by the ID number if it doesn't have a match in the passwd/group files.  That's probably why you're seeing the 501.

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