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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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