machine does not recognize my account

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2 total messages Started by Chuck Kincaid Tue, 21 Jul 1992 00:17

#143

Author: Chuck Kincaid
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 00:17

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Hello,
	I have a NeXTstation with 2.1 at home.  I occasionally take it
in to the office at school to get nice ftp access.  Recently when I 
logged out (at home) it had no idea who I was when I tried to log back
in.  I could log in as root, but my regular user name was not known.  I
checked NetInfoManager and all of the information about me was there.
The same with UserManager.  The owner of my directories and accounts 
was my Group ID.  
	A knowledgable friend suggested I try 'nidump' into a file and
then 'niload' back from the file.  However, it would not let me do the
niload.  I can't remember the error message right now and, of course,
I didn't right it down.  Maybe something about can't make connection?
	The friend thought I might have a bad hostconfig file.  He
said that sometimes the system will deteriorate over time.  While, I
can't guarantee that the hostconfig is correct for a standalone machine,
I can say that it does not look for the network when it boots up.  Also,
when I rebooted the machine the problem was fixed (temporarily, at
least. :-)
	Does anyone have any ideas about this?  or seen it before?  I
appreciate any help.  Thank you.

charles d. kincaid
statman@sta.ufl.edu
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Re: machine does not recognize my account

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Author: Paul Merriman
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 11:45

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In article <STATMAN.92Jul21001718@pilot.stat.ufl.edu> statman@stat.ufl.edu  
(Chuck Kincaid) writes:

> 	A knowledgable friend suggested I try 'nidump' into a file and
> then 'niload' back from the file.  However, it would not let me do the
> niload.  I can't remember the error message right now and, of course,
> I didn't right it down.  Maybe something about can't make connection?
>...
> 	Does anyone have any ideas about this?  or seen it before?  I
> appreciate any help.  Thank you.
> 
Sounds like netinfo wasn't running properly, Ive seen this sort of
problem before when booting into single user mode (boot sd -s from NeXT>  
prompt). Without netinfo running (even locally) the machine uses  
/etc/passwd for its user information - so if your not in there you have a  
problem! I discovered this when trying to change the password in single  
user mode then going multiuser - the change hadn't been noticed (going  
multi-user starts the netinfo daemons and from then on /etc/passwd is  
ignored). I sorted this out by starting the netinfo daemons by hand (you  
can see which ones by examining /etc/rc) then doing niload to load  
/etc/passwd into local netinfo.

Still all that doesn't explain why rebooting sorted things out - are you  
sure nothing else had changed?.
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