Bug#56824: marked as done (libc6: Cannot look up user names from uid)
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From: Brian Bassett <brianb@mail.wsu.edu>
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Subject: libc6: Cannot look up user names from uid
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Package: libc6
Version: 2.1.2-12
Severity: grave
Symptoms:
* My bash PS1 is "\u@\h:\w\$ ", and my prompt appears as:
I have no name!@admiral:~$
* On startup, spruce (through glib) attempts to determine my name:
Glib-WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed due to: Permission denied.
* When exim recieves a message to send:
I have no name!@admiral:~$ telnet localhost 25
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to admiral.h.
Escape character is '^]'.
2000-02-01 11:17:49 Failed to get user name for uid 8
Connection closed by foreign host.
I have no name!@admiral:~$
Additional Info:
This is on a potato box running frozen as of 31 Jan 2000.
-- System Information
Debian Release: potato
Kernel Version: Linux admiral 2.2.14 #13 Fri Jan 7 19:14:24 PST 2000 i486
unkown
Versions of the packages libc6 depends on:
ii ldso 1.9.11-5 The Linux dynamic linker, library and
utilit
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From: Brian Bassett <brianb@mail.wsu.edu>
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Subject: Oops
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Sorry,
The problem was on my end. '/etc/passwd' was mode 0600. (How it got
that way, I don't know.)
Brian
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