Re: Problems with user recognition?

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From: Chris Medcraft
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 00:00

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On 18 Nov 2000 11:35:59 GMT, Richard Senior <richard@r-senior.demon.co.uk> 
wrote:
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>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?
>

Thanks for your reply, Richard.

No, /etc/passwd is still world readable.  Unfortunately, the problem is
transient - after halting the box and then rebooting, user identification is
fine.  Hmm - I've never seen this before, and it's irritating as hell!

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