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- From: woody@cs.utexas.edu (James Woodgate)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: sls 99 user problems
- Date: 23 Dec 1992 01:12:38 -0600
- Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
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- In article <1h8qqvINNfio@savoy.cc.williams.edu> 93jay@williams.edu (Jonathan Young) writes:
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-
- > When trying a whoami they get the message "cannot find username
- >for UID xxx"
- >
- > Only root seems to be able to use mail "username" without causing
- >a segmentation fault
- >
- > Minicom tells anyone other than root that "you don't exist go away"
- >
- > Ls -l does not correctly identify ownership for these new accounts
- >and reports them as owned by userid.
-
-
- I had all these problems also, until I changed the permission bits
- for /etc/passwd.
-
- As root type:
-
- > chmod og+r /etc/passwd
-
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