Subject: RE: ls -l displays uid and gid numerically

From: "Speier, Guy J - CNF" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 09:37:52 -0700

I ran into a similar problem.  What ate hte perms on the ~ftp/etc/passwd
& group
files?  Also, what OS are you running?

Guy

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> From: 	Mike Q. Hiller[SMTP:[email-masked]]
> Reply To: 	[email-masked]
> Sent: 	Thursday, April 30, 1998 9:15 AM
> To: 	[email-masked]
> Subject: 	ls -l displays uid and gid numerically
> 
> Hi,
> 
>  
> 	I am running wu-ftpd wu-2.4(2) under Solaris 2.5.1.
> 	When I log in as anonymous or a guest user and do an ls -l,
> 	the UIDs and GIDs are displayed numerically, not symbolically.
> 	I do have readable versions of passwd and group files in
> 	~ftp/etc and the chroot works fine. Why doesn'd ls look
> 	them up in etc/passwd, etc/group?
> 
> 							Thanks,
> 							Mike Q. Hiller
> 							[email-masked]
>