[NTLUG:Discuss] screwed up rights!

[Richard Geoffrion]

Slackware 8.1 w/reiserfs (No Xwindows/KDE/or Gnome)
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I just did an ls -l in the /usr/src directory of a new server I'm building
and I have to say that I have NO idea why the rights in this directory are
so screwed up.  Check this out.

['ls -l /usr/src']
drwxr-xr-x    5 2222     2222          784 Jun 27 17:36 Net_SSLeay.pm-1.17/
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root          224 Jun 28 00:43 autorespond-2.0.2/
drwxrwxrwx   23 richard  users        2792 Jul  1 13:26 courier-imap-1.5.1/
drwxr-xr-x    5 root     bin         19160 Jun 28 13:40 ezmlm-0.53/
drwxrwxr-x    2 500      500            48 Jun 28 13:32 ezmlm-idx-0.40/
drwxr-xr-x   12 root     root         1296 Jun 27 20:15 httpd-2.0.39/
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           12 Jun 27 07:05 linux ->
linux-2.4.18/
drwxr-xr-x   15 root     root          808 Jun 27 19:30 linux-2.4.18/
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     bin         24432 Jun 27 21:48 qmail-1.03/
drwxr-xr-x    4 500      500          1904 Jun 29 00:53 qmailadmin-1.0.2/
drwxr-xr-x    7 root     root          168 Feb 23 18:02 rpm/
drwxr-xr-x    9 1009     106           400 Jun 18 20:13 samba-2.2.5/
drwxrwxrwx   25 richard  users        2104 Jul  1 10:02 sqwebmail-3.3.6/
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root        11504 Jun 27 20:23 ucspi-tcp-0.88/
drwxr-xr-x    9 500      500             4184 Jun 28 01:34 vpopmail-5.2.1/

[/'ls -l /usr/src']

Who the heck is user and group 2222!  It's not in my /etc/passwd file!

All of these source code directories were extracted using the command
'tar -zxvf /usr/download/example.gz'

Does THAT have anything to do with it?   How SHOULD I be extracting files?
Do I need to do anything to fix the current rights? (chown -R root:root
/usr/src; chown -R richard:users /usr/src/courier-imap-1.5.1)


-Richard