Re: RED HAT Linux Problem

[John Summerfield <summer os2 ami com au>]

> 
> Sir,
> 
> I am using RED HAT Linux 6.2 and i am facing one problem which is as follows:
> 
> If i create one shell account then if i goto home directory it shows like:
> 
>      owner        group        account
>       512           users         xyz
> 
> So the problem is in the owner it should show xyz but now all new user 
> created it shows the user ID instead of name of user ID.
> 
> Pl. tell me how can i change to show USER name instead of USER ID
> I want it should be like as :
> 
>      owner        group          account
>       xyz             users          xyz
> 
> Pl. help me


Devashish 

Please, instead of telling us what you see, show us what the computer says, 
like this:

summer@dugite tmp]$ ls -l
total 176
-rw-r--r--    1 summer   summer       1192 May 16  2000 deny.www~
drwxrwxr-x    3 summer   summer       4096 Nov 27 19:17 emu
-rw-r--r--    1 summer   summer       1153 Jun 17  2000 index.html~
-rw-r--r--    1 summer   summer       2674 Jan 28 19:21 ix.html~
-rwxr-xr-x    1 summer   summer     138005 Nov 28  1999 junk
-rw-rw-rw-    1 summer   summer       1033 May 31  2000 lilo.conf~
-rw-rw-r--    1 summer   summer      10063 Aug 17  2000 rep.html
drwxrwxr-x    4 summer   summer       4096 Nov 30 18:11 tn3270
[summer@dugite tmp]$ 


Often, the two are different.

Besides, we're used to interpreting the output of Linux commands;-)


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