Re: User with uid 1000 suddenly appeared on my woody-box.
On 25-Jan-2002 ae roy wrote:
> I suddenly noticed when I wanted to recompile my kernel, which lies in
> /home/kernel/linux that I suddenly didn't have permissions in that directory
> anymore, although root in the past had done a chown in that directory giving
> it to the normal user. I used to have permissions, but something has changed.
> It now belongs to user with the uid 1000. There is no user with that uid, my
> users starts at 1001! Can someone shed some light on my problem?
>
a recent upload of base-passwd swaps the uid and gid of every user in your
passwd file. See the subject 'Warning: Do NOT upgrade base-passwd'.
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