The OS recognizes a user by its UID. The name is useful to human being, not to the computer. So it's the same. How are you checking the permission? Can you check with the following?:
Are you facing any permission/access related issue? (I am sure you are not)
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currently i am migrating some directories over to a new server. is there any command (rcp or ftp or anything) for me to use without changing the ownership and permission of the directory?
i am copying some directories from unix machine to linux machine. what is the exact command?
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Hi everyone,
Need help with an issue. The group ownership of files on my Solaris system is getting changed automatically. Could someone tell me the reason why? And how could I correct it? One more info- everytime the ownership changes, it changes to "x".
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I have a new HPUX system going into production and it will be used by 2 projects. One of the contract requirements is the 2 groups can not have access to the others work or data. I believe I have the system pretty well locked up using groups and permissions and selective mounting of... (2 Replies)
Hi
I want to change the default home directory of a user by modifying the /etc/passwd.
I have a user named John
cat /etc/passwd | grep John
john:x:503:506::/home/john/:/bin
Here is my script:
echo "Enter username";
read username;
echo "Enter new home directory";
read new_path;
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Hello All:
I have an LDAP server that is used for authentication. Now the home directory id set to : /export/home/user1 . But I am logging in to different machines Solaris, Linux. The problem is I want the home directory to change depending on the os version (e.g. /export/home/user1/linux). Can... (1 Reply)
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I've created solaris user which has both FTP and SFTP Access. Using the "ftpaccess" configuration file options "guest-root" and "restricted-uid", i can restrict the user to a specific directory. But I'm unable to restrict the user when the user is logged in using SFTP.
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accidentally i have changed ownership of a directory,subdirectory and files wil below command. I want to the change ownership back as same as in same directory on another server. How can i do it?
chown -R user:group /u01
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I am trying to create Oracle user. I will install oracle after that. But my problem is /home/oracle directory is not being created.
bash-3.2# useradd -g oinstall -G dba,oper -d /home/oracle -m oracle
cp: /home/oracle: Operation not applicable
chown: /home/oracle: No such file or directory
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Hello,
I've just started using a Solaris machine with SunOS 5.10.
After the machine is turned on, I open a Console window and at the prompt, if I execute a pwd command, it tells me I'm at my home directory (someone configured "myuser" as default user after init).
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