Re: Problems with user recognition?

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From: Richard Senior
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 00:00

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On 17 Nov 2000, 501@rael.demon.co.uk () wrote:

> I'm running Mandrake 7.1, and for some reason, no user except for root is 
> recognised by login, as you can tell by the 'from' field on this post.  
> Instead of e.g. 'chris', I'm just user 501.  Recently I have cut out a few 
> services from runlevel 3, although I've done this before with no problems.  
> 
> Any help whatsoever at this point would be greatly appreciated.

For most applications and utilities I expect this is just a simple lookup
in /etc/passwd using the getpwent system call. Did you take off world read
permissions on /etc/passwd?

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Regards,

Richard

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