On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 06:22:20PM -0800, Jim C wrote: > Change to root and see if the password entries in /etc/passwd /etc/group > /etc/shadow and /etc/shadow- have the same uid. Sometimes this gets > messed up or an entry is ommitted in one of the files. Be careful about > your security while messing with this. >
> > Clif Caldwell wrote:
snip....
> > id: cannot find name for user ID 500
first, check your /etc/passwd. open it in an editor and look
in the 3rd field for the nr. 500, eg:
user:x:500:blab...
^------------- this is it.
but yours might look like:
:x:500:blabla
so put at the beginning of the line the username u wish. if
the username is already there, try the same with the /etc/shadow
file, but there you have to look for a line starting
with a ':' , eg:
:SVq44SdaInkm2:12056:0:999999:7:::
all other lines in this file start with
username:SVdk......
not with a ':'. if you have the line, put in the same name as in
your passwd file for the UID 500 user.
after that, run as root:
pwconv
on command line.
if this should for any hell's reason not work, try:
useradd -d /home/username -g groupname -s /bin/bash
-u 500 -o username
but this should be in one line.
have phun ;)
miLosh
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