Why does ROX show user and group file info in [brackets]?

[Béèm]

For some time I am puzzeld about the strange indications like [500] [1000] as well in user and group when I look with ROXfiler.
I found a nice url about the Linux system, but there was no talk about that.
What do the digits between the square brackets mean?

[Flash]

Why don't you post a screen shot of what you mean? Crop it and resize then save as .jpeg before you post it, to minimize the file size.

[GuestToo]

it basically means that the file was copied from another Linux system and the file was created by a user other than "root" (root's user id would be 0)

or you are looking at files that are in another Linux's file system

that's why i put the option --no-same-owner in my dotpup packages if i unzip a tar file, it makes all the files that are unzipped belong to you

for example, you can do this: type:

chown -R spot:spot /root/spot
ls -lan /root/spot

and you should see something like this:

1# ls -lan /root/spot/
drwxr-sr-x 18 502 502 1024 Sep 3 12:01 .
drwxr-xr-x 91 0 0 6144 Sep 16 18:27 ..
drwx--S--- 2 502 502 1024 Sep 3 11:20 .AbiSuite
-rw-r--r-- 1 502 502 147 Dec 19 2005 .ash_history
-rw------- 1 502 502 317 Sep 3 12:48 .bash_history
drwxr-xr-x 6 502 502 1024 Sep 6 2005 Choices
drwxrwxrwx 3 502 502 1024 Dec 11 2005 .config
drwxr-sr-x 2 502 502 1024 Dec 23 2005 .didiwiki

etc etc etc

usually the ownership of files does not matter, but sometimes it does matter, and it might take some time to figure out the answer to the problem

[Béèm]

Sorry, but as this forum has performance difficulties, I thought the question was clear without pictures.

I indeed had a problem for my rp-pppoe to start when going from 2.02 to 2.10.
These are some examples.
BTW I don't have users on my system.