[CLUE-Tech] I have no name!

[Adam Bultman]

Did you restore /etc/shadow ?

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On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Friedman, Jason wrote:

> I was having troubles with my kernel because of a botched upgrade.
>
> So, I copied my /home, /root, and /etc directories off to someplace safe
> and did a full install with RedHat 8.0, being careful not to change the
> existing disk partitioning and to not format the partition holding those
> copies of /home, /root, and /etc.  The install went smoothly, my files
> are still there.  I deleted the default /etc and put in its place the
> previous one.
>
> Now, when I log in as a non-root user, I get this message:
>
> id: cannot find name for user ID 500
>
> And then my prompt:
>
> I have no name!@abigail ~ $
>
> I am logged in, though.
>
> When I try to do an su to any non-root user, I get this message:
>
> could not open session
>
> I've got entries for these non-root users and groups in /etc/passwd and
> /etc/group.  I even deleted and re-added the users using the userdel and
> useradd commands.
>
> Why don't I have a name?
>
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