RE: You don't exist. Go away.
This problem is pretty common with any kind of networking information
system.
Generally this occurrs when trying to do a name service lookup on a
numerical ID to find the username which corresponds to it and not getting an
answer back. This sort of thing can happen if:
1) /etc/passwd is modified to not include the given user when logged
2) You are using NIS. Then if NIS goes down and you are either
a) not running nscd
b) your entry has been flushed from the nscd cache
while you are logged in.
3) Your are using LDAP. If you experience a lookup failure similar to above
4) Badly munged nsswitch.conf file
I don't recall whether you can get this by mucking up the PAM stack or not,
I'd have to test.
But, basically it emans your user is screwed up. Figure out why and fix him.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Heldebrant [mailto:hmike@portalofevil.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 4:10 PM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: You don't exist. Go away.
>
>
> On Wed, 2001-11-21 at 15:09, nate wrote:
> > Andre Berger said:
> >
> > > access (I can ping IP addresses, they are not resolved). The "You
> > > don't exist. Go away." message appears when I try to issue
> >
> > while i haven't experienced this myself under normal
> > circumstances .. i have had it when trying to ssh in
> > a chroot enviornment. turns out ssh or openssh(or both?)
> > requires a entry for the userid running ssh in /etc/passwd
> > without one it spits back "you dont exist! go away!". have
> > had the same error on win32 with SSH without a /etc/passwd
> >
> > so my best reccomendation would be to check to be sure
> > /etc/passwd is there and is not curropted and has an entry
> > for the UID your using to do tasks.
>
> I've seen this error once before on my firewall system which had been
> clogged with a looping nmbd problem. I couldn't get a login
> to work, it
> gave me the exist error. Luckily I still had a tty logged in
> so I could
> try and kill most of the processes and reboot. I figured the system
> couldn't open any more files. Never have had it happen again, so far.
>
> --mike
>
>
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