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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.

    cheers,
      DaveK


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