[SOLVED!]: UIDs missing, "I have no name!", etc

[Kent West <westk@nicanor.acu.edu>]

On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, Kent West wrote:

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> The only problem is that if I'm logged in as anyone except root and set my
> prompt to display my username, it displays instead "I have no name!" If I
> do a whoami command, it returns "cannot find username for UID 1000" (or
> whatever the UID is supposed to be.
> 
> Anyone know the fix for this?
> 

I did a "chmod o+r /etc/passwd" and this fixed it.

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