sean finney on 16 Mar 2004 20:00:03 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] id: cannot find name for user ID 

hi john,

On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 01:56:19PM +0000, John Karr wrote:
> I upgraded to Mandrake 10.0 Community and I'm getting this weird error
> when I log in:

sounds like they changed and/or removed your user id.

> 
> id: cannot find name for user ID 501
> and my shell prompts look like this: [I have no name!@athlon brainbuz]$

try this for some ideas.  if you get something, you'll need to change
your uid.  if you don't get anything, you'll need to re-add your user
account:

grep 501 /etc/passwd
grep brainbuz /etc/passwd

hth
	sean

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