Owner and Group on ls -l

[ddrandy]

When viewing the contents of a directory using the ls -l command the owner and group name are shown as id's (numbers) not the user name. If the command is done as root the names display correctly. Also when logging on the system users receive disk quota messages. It was working fine previously but we just did a restore of the operating system from tape.

thanks

 

[Chacalinc]

may be users can not read the /etc/group file or /etc/passwd

 

[aceed]

Hi
I'm agree with chacalinc. Check the /etc/passwd and /etc/group. May be the users is not in the list.

regards
aceed

 

[Martin999]

More likely that the username isn't in /etc/passwd and the group isn't in /etc/group - common if the directory is a remote mount as the users on the 'other' box often arn't set up on the local box.

martin