On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Ken Arck wrote:
> I added a user, but assigned them the httpd server doc root as their home
> directory (instead of /home/user). Got a couple of errors (can't find their
> .bash_profile. etc) and now, all users but root show as "I have no
> name!@preview" (preview is the hostname).
>
> No one but root can su to any other user (if you try as anyone other than
> root, you are told that user does not exist). I suspect that the username
> is not being tagged to a UID, but I can't seem to fix it. I've even deleted
> user entries from passwd, shadow and removed their home directories and
> then recreated with no success.
> I went through this earlier this month, but for the life of me, I can't
> remember what i did to fix it. It also seems it started when I changed this
> particular user's home directory.
>
> pwck does not show any errors either...
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