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James Mitch
Asked: 2013-02-18 14:39:58 +0800 CST

How to fix "chown: invalid group:" if the user does not exist on the running system?

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I want to fix permissions on another disk with chown. Set the permissions to a user which does not exist on the system which is currently running.

Does that work without adding the user?

chown

1 Answers

  1. Use the numerical UID/GID instead of the user/group name.

    You can find the UID/GID on the system the disk belongs to by using

      id some_username

    or

    ls -ln some_file

    where some_file is a file that belongs to user you are looking for

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