wrong group?

[conradin]

Hi all,
I have a user account on a friends computer, but the permissions are screwy.
I can use sudo commands. every time I log in via ssh, I get a message stating:
cannot find name for group ID 501

I have no idea what that means...
but when I view the other users of the home directory, I see the suspicious 501.

$ll
drwxr-xr-x  6 ilaforge     ilaforge     4096 2012-03-29 12:18 ilaforge
drwxr-xr-x  5 jreistad     jreistad     4096 2012-03-30 11:52 jreistad
drwxr-xr-x 16 conradin              501 4096 2012-03-31 19:17 conradin

I just want my home directory to function normally so I can put my web pages up. is 501 a group or a folder? what is ll telling me here?

[HiImTye]

501 is the GID there, you can chown it to the user and their group using

sudo chown -R user:group folder

generally, user groups start at 1000, unless whoever made them creates them differently

[Dangertux]

501 is the GID there, you can chown it to the user and their group using

sudo chown -R user:group folder

generally, user groups start at 1000, unless whoever made them creates them differently

Note : RHEL based systems usually start at 500.

The above posted solution should work for you but if you want to find out what group that is you can try

getent group 501

Hope this helps.

[HiImTye]

true but since it has an [Ubuntu] prefix I hadn't considered Red Hat problems

[Dangertux]

I was just pointing it out, newer RHEL releases have changed to the 1000 starting point.

[HiImTye]

I did not know that