Brett Parker wrote:
I don't appear to be able to get ls to not show the full username... I find ps will truncate, but ls seems to "just work"... (I've just checked against a 13 char long username...).
Hmmm...
This is a (heavily) modified RH install (not sure which RH, but old; RH7 probably) so maybe things have changed. Most of my own stuff uses shorter names anyway so I just assumed this was common.
Just discovered that although I don't have the rights to rm the files, I do have the rights to chown them, which is another (easier, now I find it!) way around...
Sounds "interesting", I can only assume that you own the parent directory for them.
I have no idea how it works, but basically I have an "admin" user which is supposed to give me root-like permissions without being root. In practise it's a bit hit and miss as to which things I can do, but essentially its a normal user that does have some overall control of other accounts (except root). It's a hosted virtual machine I have little control over.