Strange ownership issues

[Jay Shampur]

Hi Rick,

Thank you very much - that is indeed the case.

...Jay

On 8/24/05, Rick Stevens <rstevens at vitalstream.com> wrote:
> Jay Shampur wrote:
> > I've recently installed a Red Hat ES3 Update5 on a Compaq Proliant
> > box.  There are only two accounts defined at the moment: darryl and
> > mysql.
> >
> > I logged in as root, unzipped a tarball in /root folder, and this
> > tarball uncompressed into a folder. So far, so good.  The wierd part
> > is that this new folder - which did not exist prior me uncompressing -
> > has the owner darryl group darryl.
> >
> > I know I did not su into this account or otherwise - also various
> > folders which were created when I installed Apache 1.3.33 from source
> > and other software, have their ownership set to various other groups
> > such as mysql, games etc.,
> >
> > I have not found any pattern in this - can anyone help?
> 
> Keep in mind that the user names and group names shown in "ls" listings
> are for your benefit.  The system doesn't store names in the ownerships,
> it stores the UID and GID (user and group numeric ID) values.  "ls", by
> default, tries to match the numeric UID or GID to the /etc/passwd or
> /etc/group file.  If there's a match, the corresponding name is displayed.
> 
> All this means is that the tarball was created by someone on another
> machine whose UID matches the UID of user "darryl" on your box.  Do an
> "ls -n" on the new folder, then compare those UIDs and GIDs to your
> /etc/passwd file and you'll find that they match.
> 
> By default, RHEL starts creating new users using UID 100 and GID 100
> and increments them as each user is added.  This is controlled by the
> file /etc/defaults/useradd.
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