We solved the problem ourselves by restoring all passwd files
from a dump from last week. As it turned out, the
passwd.pag file was corrupted some how.
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Jerry Ponder
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Arizona State University
Tempe, Az, 85287-1504
Email: ponder_at_groucho.la.asu.edu
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ORIGINAL MESSAGE
>
> Hi,
>
> For a Alpha 255/300, DU4.0B:
> When I login as myself (or other regular users do) and do a
> "whoami" we get the correct response. eg:
>
> >whoami
> ponder
> >
>
> When logged in (directly to the console) as root
> is gives a blank:
>
> #whoami
>
> #who am i
> root ttyp2 Jun 12 10:48
>
>
> The passwd file does not look corrupt and I don't know where else
> to look. Any ideas?
>
>
Received on Fri Jun 13 1997 - 00:00:56 NZST