Confusing ls -l format

Peter Flynn peter at silmaril.ie
Wed Aug 12 21:16:16 UTC 2020



On 12/08/2020 20:56, MR ZenWiz wrote:
> In Ubuntu 20.04, when I do a long listing of, say, my home directory,
> I see this in the listing:
> 
> drwxr-xr-x  2 mrichter domain users   4096 Feb 11  2020 Documents
> 
> All but one of the files and directories listed show "domain" between
> user and group id.
> 
> If I list with -o, both the "domain" and the group name disappear.
> 
> What is that "domain" piece?
> 
> AFAICT, it mainl prevents locate and find from working properly -
> neither one can see the files in one of those domain directories.
> 
> I tried to Google for this and Google doesn't seem to understand the questions.
> 
> What does it mean and how can I find or locate around it?

Can you show us the contents of the file /etc/group

Peter




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