User with uid 1001: who is this

[gene heskett]

On 11/4/22 06:03, Chris Green wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 04, 2022 at 09:27:03AM +0100, robert rottermann wrote:
>> Hi there
>>
>> I have a folder on my Ubuntu 20.04 that has owner 1001 like so:
>>
>> drwxrwxrwx  8   1001 abacus    4096 Nov  3 14:44  if_fernuni/
>>
>> now I do not find any user with id 1001.
>>
> Well you won't! If there was a user with the UID 1001 then the name
> would have been shown rather than 1001.
>
>> Who/what is that user with uid 1001?
>>
> It's probably a user you have added to the system and then deleted,
> the first user whose details you enter when installing Ubuntu gets UID
> 1000 and GID 1000.  Extra users added get UIDs/GIDs in sequence above
> 1000.
>
> Depending on how the added user with UID 1001 was deleted their
> directory under /home may stll be there, so 'ls /home' may tell you
> something.
>
> Given that the GID above is 'abacus' there's a fair chance that the
> user name was 'abacus'.

here at the coyote.den, that 1001 is amanda, the only backup program worth using.



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