*- On 19 Jun, Kent West wrote about "UIDs missing, "I have no name!", etc" > [tales of sorrow] > > The only problem is that if I'm logged in as anyone except root and set my > prompt to display my username, it displays instead "I have no name!" If I > do a whoami command, it returns "cannot find username for UID 1000" (or > whatever the UID is supposed to be. >
The UID and GID are the 3rd and 4th fields in the password file. What are they set to for your accounts. Should look like: root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash user:x:1000:1000:Full Name,,,,:/home/user:/usr/bin/tcsh -- Brian --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis ---------------------------------------------------------------------
