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Thaidog
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 Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 2:32 am Post subject: id: cannot find name for user ID 508 SOLVED |
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For some reason every time I log in I'm getting "id: cannot find name for user ID 508" when I log in to my box...
mcadams@10.0.1.112's password:
id: cannot find name for user ID 508
id: cannot find name for user ID 508
[I have no name!@earth ~]$ pwd
/home/mcadams
Any ideas what's going on?
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notageek
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| Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 3:15 am Post subject: |
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My guess is there's a possible entry missing from /etc/passwd for uid 508, please check by running the following command.
| Code: | | # grep 508 /etc/passwd |
Also what is the output of "id" when you run from your non-root user account? |
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Thaidog
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| Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2008 1:46 am Post subject: |
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| notageek wrote: | My guess is there's a possible entry missing from /etc/passwd for uid 508, please check by running the following command.
| Code: | | # grep 508 /etc/passwd |
Also what is the output of "id" when you run from your non-root user account? |
Turned out chmod 644 /etc/passwd & /etc/group was off.
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notageek
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| Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2008 7:13 am Post subject: |
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Oh ok! That makes more sense 
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