I had the same crap happen too me. I still don't know why it happens.
Did you specifically pick the uid of 501? It's better to let adduser
pick the uid, because user ids are sometimes supposed to be over 1000.
I have slackware, and if I create a user with a uid of under 1000,
all the same crap happens to me.
On 04-Sep-98 Taylor, Scott J wrote:
> Ok, I capitulate! I can't figure out why 'whoami' will not tell me
> who
> I am unless I am logged in as root.
>
> The facts:
> I created the user using the adduser utility (in fact I created
> more
> than just this one, and they all have the same outcome)
> The /etc/passwd file has the user identified as
> "scotty:x:501:100:scott,,,,,:home/scotty:/bin/bash" which is AFAIK
> 100%
> okey dokey
> When I try to use pine is says "Who are you? (Unable to look up
> login
> name)" but when I type mail it says "no mail for scotty"
> When I do a whoami is says "whoami: cannot find username for UID
> 501"
> When I ls -l /home it identifies /home/scotty as being owned by
> scotty
>
> I have done a lot research on this and I absolutely can not figure
> it
> out on my own. Any insight to this problem would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> 486/66, 32M, 1G, Slackware 3.5 with a standard 2.0.34
>
> Thanks,
> Scott
>
> COLUG: Hey guys, when is the next meeting? and are you going to
> have it
> at the library?
>
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