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Re: Alice-whacker's passwd file isn't being updated

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Sun Oct 8 14:36:41 2000

To: Alex Coventry <alex_c@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Linux-Dev <linux-dev@MIT.EDU>
From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 08 Oct 2000 14:36:25 -0400
In-Reply-To: Alex Coventry's message of "Sun, 8 Oct 2000 11:33:04 -0400 (EDT)"
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Alex Coventry <alex_c@MIT.EDU> writes:

> I just logged into alice-whacker.  It's getting me kerberos tickets, but
> not putting me in the passwd file, so I get problems like this:
> 
> athena%  ssh -c blowfish -f archaeopteryx.lcs /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm
> You don't exist, go away!
> athena% whoami
> whoami: cannot find username for UID 27454
> 
> Anyone know what could be going wrong?

Those symptoms are more typically associated with the password file
not being world-readable; check the permissions on /etc/passwd and
/etc/passwd.local?

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Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu)

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