"user 501 without a username"

I will guess that showing the UID instead of the user name means that you 
copied a file from one machine to another and did not chown it to a user on the 
second machine.


On Apr 11, 2011, at 11:47 AM, Jesse Tayler wrote:

> 
> I'm launching a UNIX script to generate image thumbnails and troubleshooting 
> with a new server setup.
> 
> Unless I'm mistaken, the script is unable to launch due to permissions and WO 
> seems to be running user 501 without a username.
> 
> Now I can't recall if that's how it used to be, should I be running uid 501 
> with no account/username?
> 
> I don't want a security disaster, but I do need to launch some scripts that 
> require a decent shell env.
> 
> Advice?
> 
> 
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