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Re: [PLUG] id: cannot find name for user ID
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On the 16th day of March in the year 2004 you wrote:
> Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 13:56:19 +0000
> From: John Karr <jkarr@brainbuz.org>
> To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
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> Subject: [PLUG] id: cannot find name for user ID
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> I upgraded to Mandrake 10.0 Community and I'm getting this weird error
> when I log in:
>
> id: cannot find name for user ID 501
> and my shell prompts look like this: [I have no name!@athlon brainbuz]$
>
> There's nothing wrong with my passwd file that I can see.
>
> When I type id in a shell, I get:
> uid=501 gid=501(brainbuz)
> groups=501(brainbuz),22(cdrom),80(cdwriter),505(burning),506(everyone)
>
> If I type id followed by either a username or uid I get a not found error.
Check the permissions on /etc/passwd and /etc/group. Both should be world
readable.
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