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kyle at breezy.com kyle at breezy.com
Thu Sep 16 20:26:23 EDT 1999


No change, still returns "[I have no name!@"  Any other suggestions???

Thanks

Kyle


"John Chambers,,,781-647-1813" wrote:

> Kyle Plummer writes:
>         When I checked /home the userids had changed to numbers???
>
> I bet if you check /etc/passwd, you'll find that those numbers  don't
> correspond  to any actual user ids.  What ls does when the numeric id
> doesn't belong to any user, is to simply show the number.  There's  a
> good  chance  that something has garbaged /etc/passwd.  This can be a
> bit of a problem ...
>
> Try "ls -l /etc/passwd*" and see if you have any backup copies.
>
> (I wonder how linux handles this?  I'm not sure I want to  experiment
> with it on any machine that is being used.)
>
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