UserID/Group Problems
 

hello everyone,

I'm having a problem with Usernames and groups on my Bootable Linux Firewall CD. All the files have a userid of "0" and a group of "0".

And I can't seem to change the owners of any file.
chown root /etc/reslov.conf
says: unknown username root

and chgrp root /etc/whatever
says: unknown group root

My /etc/passwd file looks like this:
root::0:0:System Administrator:/:/bin/bash
nobody::65534:65534:Noone at all:/:/bin/bash

and my /etc/group file looks like this:
root::0:
nogroup::65534:


Does anyone know what may be causing this ?