I created a user, let's call him fred, which was assigned uid 503. The user directory was created and assigned to owner fred and group wheel. All ok. Later that evening, root changed the uid for fred to 502 (for compatibility with other systems). The problem isn't that the directory owner didn't automatically change to uid 502 - I expected to have to change it manually. What I wasn't prepared for is that a ls -al still showed the owner as fred, which was now assigned to uid 502. ls -lan properly showed the owner as still being 503.
So, I'm open to correction, but it seems to me that something's broken. If user fred used to be 503, but is now 502 (there is no user 503 now), I don't see how it can be correct for ls to still report fred as the owner of files/directories. I expected the reporting to change to just show the numeric uid, but I'm not picky about that.
I have no idea whether this is a problem with the ls command, with the filesystem, with some index of ownership/permissions, or something else entirely. Suggestions?
KeS
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