Re: UIDs missing, "I have no name!", etc

[Brian Servis <servis@purdue.edu>]

*- On 19 Jun, Kent West wrote about "UIDs missing, "I have no name!", etc"
>
[tales of sorrow]
> 
> 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.
> 

The UID and GID are the 3rd and 4th fields in the password file.  What
are they set to for your accounts. Should look like:

root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
user:x:1000:1000:Full Name,,,,:/home/user:/usr/bin/tcsh

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Brian 
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