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From: altitude@css.itd.umich.edu (Alex Tang)
Newsgroups: umich.unix,comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: HELP!!!! (permissions and such Messed)
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Date: 12 Dec 1993 19:13:38 GMT
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Wesley Craig (wes@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu) wrote:
: >If i do an ls -lg on my home dir, all the files come up with their uid
: >and gid...not the respective names.  

: What does "ls -lg /" print out?

Here's "ls -lg /" while done as root...
recycle#ls -lg /
total 1564
drw-rw-rw-    9 root     wheel         512 Dec 12 14:07 ./
drw-rw-rw-    9 root     wheel         512 Dec 12 14:07 ../
-rw-r--r--    1 root     wheel        1066 Jun  1  1993 .cshrc
-rw-r--r--    1 root     wheel         173 Apr 13  1993 .profile
-rw-r--r--    1 root     wheel          19 Jul  8 10:57 .rhosts
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     wheel      505633 Jul 29 15:03 386bsd*
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     wheel         512 Dec  5 10:54 bin/
-rw-r--r--    1 root     wheel      139264 Dec 12 02:09 core.dump
-rw-r--r--    1 root     wheel      126976 Jun  8  1993 core.rlogind
drwxrwxr-x    3 root     wheel        3072 Dec 12 15:08 dev/
drwxrwxr-x    4 root     wheel        2048 Dec 12 03:27 etc/
dr-xr-xr-x    2 root     wheel         512 Dec 12 14:07 kern/
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     wheel         512 May 30  1993 mnt/
lrwxrwxr-x    1 root     wheel          15 Jun 13  1993 root@ -> /usr/u/
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     wheel        1024 Jun 12  1993 sbin/
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     wheel          19 May 30  1993 sys@ -> /usr/src
lrwxr-xr-x    1 root     wheel           8 Oct 30 18:51 tmp@ -> /usr/tmp
drwxr-xr-x   21 root     wheel         512 Dec 12 03:39 usr/
lrwxrwxr-x    1 root     wheel           8 May 30  1993 utmp@ -> /usr/tm
lrwxr-xr-x    1 root     wheel           8 Aug 11 22:55 var@ -> /usr/var
 
here's "ls -lgd /" done as root:
drw-rw-rw-    9 root     wheel         512 Dec 12 14:07 //

I can't do ls -lg on / from anyone except root.  No one else has
permission to read it.