Re: [cobalt-users] Help Navigating Directories

["Steve Werby" <steve-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Jeff Lasman" <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dan Kriwitsky wrote:
>
> > Maybe it has to do with the username length or DW? You say the owner is
> > one thing, but the server says brandon0 not brandon0108.
>
> Lots of room for confusion, here, Dan, and that's why a lot of us
> recommend never using usernames over 8 characters.
>
> But while brandon0 may not be brandon0108, in this case it probably is;
> the directory listing always truncates to eight characters.

I thought I pointed the following before, but perhaps I didn't.  The -n flag
on ls returns uids and gids instead of user names and group names.  If
unsure you can do something along the lines of "ls -nl", then check the uids
in /etc/passwd and the gids in /etc/group.

> A good try to verify this would be to do a chown to brandon0108, and see
> if the problem goes away.

Well, in Brandon's case it was a permissions issue so doing what you suggest
wouldn't really tell you anything.  <g>  Of course, this was all asked and
answered on-list a day before you sent your post.  You might want to
consider reading a few messages ahead in a thread before responding.  I'm
afraid this behavior is starting to become habit forming.  I know, I
know...you're hundreds of emails behind, you don't read them all... ;P  Have
a good weekend, Jeff!

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