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List:       caldera-users
Subject:    Re: Prompts and UID
From:       "Tim Bird" <tbird () caldera ! com>
Date:       1997-01-08 15:55:35
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Steve Jardine wrote:
>     I am running a copy of COL Base. If I log in as any account other that
> root, the prompt is [I have no name!@<machine name>]. id -un returns
> the uid, but not the user name. Bash package loaded is 1.14.7-2. sh-utils
> loaded is sh-utils-1.12+security-3.
>
>     The kernel is 2.0.25. Does anyone have any ideas?
Yes.  This is one of the known bugs (and a very unfortunate one, but with
an easy workaround).  id uses /etc/passwd to get the user name.
If you use lisa to add users, the read permissions for /etc/passwd
are removed for group and world.

For the time being, please use adduser to add users to the system.
I believe a fix for this will be available soon (RSN, that is :^)

To work around this problem, just 'su' to root and 'chmod a+r /etc/passwd'

Tim Bird

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