Quoting ktb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I don't know how but all the directories and files in my /home > directory changed group and ownership. They were listed as - > 1000 1000
Can I assume that kent was the first user you installed on the system? In which case, kent would normally be given the UID 1000 and the GID 1000. Your /home files would then have 1000.1000 as their owner. What appears to have happened is that ls can no longer find out who the UID and GID belong to, so it falls back to listing the raw numbers. The files /etc/passwd and /etc/group ought to contain lines like kent:x:1000:1000:Your name,and address,etc.,:/home/kent:/bin/bash and kent:x:1000: respectively. Do they not? It shouldn't be necessary to alter the ownership of the files at all. 1000 is the first number used by Debian, and it also uses owner-groups, i.e. each user has a group with the same name and number. So your fix was attacking the problem from the wrong end. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.