files with strange permissions and attribute

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Ali, Saqib wrote:
>> My only thought was whether the directory was remote mounted.
> 
> since you asked... The RHEL is running on a vmware session, running on
> a ESX server. This particular folder is mounted as a vmware virtual
> disk, which also resides on the same physical server.
> 
The reason I asked was that I not infrequently see odd permissions, and of 
course numeric owners instead of names, if there's no ldap, and the user 
doesn't exist on the box that has remote mounted a directory/filesystem.

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