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Subject: [aclug-L] Re: Question!
From: Jeff <schaller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 07:52:12 -0500 (CDT)
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On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Mohammad Islam wrote:

> 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

can you send us the results of this:

echo $LOGNAME in /etc/passwd...
grep $LOGNAME /etc/passwd
echo :500: in /etc/passwd...
grep :500: /etc/passwd

-jeff
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