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In article <2564690.RDqgVLx2np@afawcett.demon.co.uk>, Andy Fawcett
<andy@athame.co.uk> writes
>J0e Schm0e wrote:
>
>> > >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 ?
>
>Incidentally, one of the boxes I maintain at work has a similar 
>problem, although it is running RH7.
>
>Everything works fine, it's just that one particular user shows up in 
>'ps' listings as its uid, rather than its username. I'm not worrying 
>about it, like I say it is all running fine, but I would be interested 
>to know what is causing it.
>
>Andy
>
Might be a RH[1] but could the process in question have been ftp'd from
the same user account on a different box.

It is just that I have a mix of Slackware and RH[2] boxes and until I
synched them the users on the RH box had uid's starting at 500 while
Slackware they ran from 1000. (Similar thing with guid's.)

Most often it would show in ls listings but occasionally in ps.

Russ

[1] Red Herring
[2] Red Hat
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