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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!nic.hookup.net!yeshua.marcam.com!zip.eecs.umich.edu!destroyer!news.itd.umich.edu!altitude From: altitude@css.itd.umich.edu (Alex Tang) Newsgroups: umich.unix,comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: HELP!!!! (permissions and such Messed) Date: 12 Dec 1993 09:26:19 GMT Organization: University of Michigan ITD/User Services Lines: 32 Message-ID: <2eeo3r$c1t@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> References: <2ee82n$1cp@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> <2eelr8$bo4@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: stimpy.css.itd.umich.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] In article <2eelr8$bo4@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> you wrote: : That's probably still permissions. How would you have logged in, found : your home directory, started the right shell, etc, if you didn't have a : passwd file entry? Yeah, I thought about that. I'm wondering what database files are used by the system to recognize a user? : I'm guess that the permissions on / are wrong. Log in as root, check : them, fix them if they're wrong.... I checked /, and all other relavent files. They're all right as far as I can tell. if i log on as root...everything is fine. I can see all the files. The permissions are fine. I checked most of them (/, /usr, /bin, /usr/bin....) and all looked well. (Allan and ainman were there too. They said everything looked ok as well.). I tried rebuilding the pwd.db and spwd.db as well. It didn't work either. Some more symptoms are: I copied who and finger into my home dir. When I run them, they say : can't access file /var/run/log/utmp. That file is there and world readable. If i do an ls -lg on my home dir, all the files come up with their uid and gid...not the respective names. NetBSD has an id command. When I used to run it, it would say: uid=100(altitude) gid=100(users) groups=0(wheel)..... Now, all it says is: uid=100 gid=100 groups=0,15,.... I'm still confused.