owner=52400 name?

[Ed Wilts]

On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 08:12:52AM -0600, Mike Vanecek wrote:
> How do I find the name of the owner=52400 and group=24067?
> 
> -rw-r--r--    1 52400    24067         20K Dec 13  2003 tbl_query_box.php

By default, the name would be displayed.  If it's not shown, it's
because the names aren't in /etc/passwd or /etc/group (or in ldap or nis
if you're using those).

It can happen that the names used to exist but don't any more, or you're
in some sort of chroot'ed environment where you've been given false/empty 
passwd or group accounts.  

I've seen this happen if you extract a tar file from another system and 
the original owner/group information is used to create the file on your 
system.

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