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

Wes Barris wesb@wesbarris.com
Mon Mar 1 23:08:00 GMT 2010


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年01月10日 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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