[aclug-L] Re: Question!

[Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What happens for other users?  What if you create a user with UID 1000 or
greater?

I'm just wondering if for some reason whoami (or at least the version you
have) doesn't work with certian uids or ranges of uids...

A wild guess.  I've never actually seen that problem before.


On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Mohammad Islam wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I have got a puzzle at hand. Whan i am looged on as normal user in my
> linux box and do a 'whoami' i got the following reply:
> 
> whoami:cannot find username for uid 500
> 
> /etc/password shows the username fine. Deleting and adding same user
> didnt help.
> 
> (adduser user/userdel user)
> 
> Now what's the problem here and how can i fix it?
> 
> Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Mohammed.
> 

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