Re: Problems with user recognition?

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From: J0e Schm0e
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 00:00

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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!
Howdy,

Are all other resources fine ?
All required partitions for home directories mounted and not full ?
Out of interest, which servives did you stop in runlevel 3 ?

J0e

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