[Xastir] User 501

[Matt Pelmear]

This scenario commonly occurs when you download a tar (zip) file created 
on a system which had a user 501.

You could always chown the file to your user to avoid the permissions issue:
     sudo chown `whoami` filename     (where "filename" is the name of 
the file with the odd ownership. Note that those are backticks, not 
single quotes.)
You can do a whole directory of files this way too:
     sudo chown -R `whoami` directoryname

These both assume your user has "sudo" capabilities. Otherwise you would 
need to do this as the root user. (I recommend using sudo over doing 
this as root.)

-Matt
KC2ZYS

On 02/12/2013 03:12 PM, Jason KG4WSV wrote:
> Unix doesn't store names, it stores user IDs (UID).  The passwd file
> is the map between usernames and UIDs.
>
> You may be seeing a situation where the user who owned the file no
> longer exists, but the file is still there.  Since the file is there,
> the old UID is still there.
>
> -Jason
> kg4wsv
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