Answer : Owner of files and directories

From: <sherry_at_canidae.cps.msu.edu>
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 1995 12:30:49 -0400 (EDT)

My original question:

> I added Rsherry to the /etc/passwd file to have the same uid and
> gid as root. Somehow all the files and dirctories originally owned by
> root are now owned by Rsherry. Command "chown" will not do anything,
> because Rsherry has the same uid as root. I deleted Rsherry from the
> passwd file hoping that will put things back to what they were. But
> they remain the same. It is really annoying.
>
> How can I have them changed back to owned by root?

Answer:
    Remove /etc/passwd.pag and /etc/passwd.dir. :-) I figured it out
by trussing "ls -l /".

Sherry
Received on Sun Jun 18 1995 - 19:02:03 NZST

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