[olug] directory impossible to delete

[Trent Melcher]

Those number were probably the UID and GID of a user that did exist and was
removed,  root should be able to remove these directories without the owner
existing.  However what you can do is create a user, then modify the passwd
and group file so the UID and GID of this user matches the UID and GID you
gave, try that and see if then the user can delete the directory.

Trent

-----Original Message-----
From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org]On Behalf Of
Ryan O'Rourke
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 9:14 AM
To: olug at olug.org
Subject: [olug] directory impossible to delete


Somehow I've ended up with a directory on my filesystem that is owned by
user '9437684' and group '9437680' with permissions of 774. Neither user
nor group actually exist on my machine and I'm guessing that somehow
through transfer of files from one machine to another I have ended up
with this error.
The problem is I can't delete it, even as root, and I also can't create
a user called '9437684' in order to delete it. Is there someway I can
get rid of that directory?

Thanks.

-- Ryan

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