Re: useradd

has this always happened ?
if there is no entry in /etc/passwd for a username i dont
believe you can log in ...
thus if he overwrote /etc/passwd then it would say 'login incorrect'
-mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chad Huneycutt" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 16:52
Subject: Re: [gentoo-newbies] useradd


> David Obwaller wrote:
> > I recently installed Gentoo 1.2 from the stage3 tarball. I updated the
> > portage tree and merged a recent linux kernel (linux-2.4.19). I added a
> > user using the command:
> > 
> > useradd -m -g users -G wheel username
> > 
> > and set a password. Now, when I log into this account I get an error:
> > 
> > /usr/bin/whoami: cannot find username for UID 1000
> > 
> > The prompt looks like "I have no name!@stoner / $" where stoner is my
> > hostname.
> 
> Did you update baselayout, and let it overwrite your /etc/passwd and 
> /etc/shadow file?  That is what I suspect happened.  Take a look at that 
> file, and see if it has all of your users in it.
> 
> -- 
> Chad Huneycutt                                try { Windows }
> Ph.D. Student                                 catch ( Exception BSOD )
> Georgia Tech College of Computing               { linux };
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