That did it. I don't have an idea what nscd does, anyone care to explain why caused that problem.
Chris On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 14:59, nate wrote: > Chris Mason said: > > I admin several Redhat servers, and on one of them, after I ran up2date > > and brought it up to date, my own username, masonc, could not login. When > > I ssh to the box using public key authentication, I get: > > > > id: cannot find name for user ID 503 > > id: cannot find name for user ID 503 > > [I have no [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]$ > > I have seen this most often on systems that use libnss-ldap, where > nscd was restarted incorrectly, and remained in a bad state(this may > be true on NIS/NIS+ systems as well but haven't personally experienced > it on such), restarting nscd always immediately solved the problem for > me. > > nate > > > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list