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- From: miranda@topaz (Johann Miranda)
- Subject: Re: sls 99 user problems
- Summary: IT WORKS!
- Sender: news@news.uiowa.edu (News)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec26.064720.13923@news.uiowa.edu>
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 06:47:20 GMT
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- References: <1h8qqvINNfio@savoy.cc.williams.edu> <ljg4b6INNbgb@cash.cs.utexas.edu>
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- Organization: Department of Elect. and Comp. Engr., University of Iowa, USA.
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- In article <ljg4b6INNbgb@cash.cs.utexas.edu> woody@cs.utexas.edu (James Woodgate) writes:
- >In article <1h8qqvINNfio@savoy.cc.williams.edu> 93jay@williams.edu (Jonathan Young) writes:
- >
- >
- >> 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
- >
- >
- >--
- >-----------------------------------------------------------------
- > Linux Rules! woody@cs.utexas.edu
- > pgp key available -> finger woody@cs
- >-----------------------------------------------------------------
-
-
- Holy cheet! This thing works!
- I got .98pl5 at home (Ok, so I am behind the times, but learning fast!)
- and I had in the past reported my mail didn't quite work. I also had a
- couple of problems with whoami and minicom. Well, I tried this permission
- bit by James and now I am happy. Hey, thanks guys!
-
- Adios. -JEM-.
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