SUMMARY: Problems mapping UID to name in V5.0

From: Sloane, Bob <sloane_at_ukans.edu>
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 13:28:29 -0500

Thanks to all who replied. I figured out the problem. The permissions
on /etc/sia/matrix.conf had been changed to 600. Once they were set to
644 things started working OK.

-- 
Bob Sloane, University of Kansas Computer Center, Lawrence, KS, 66045
sloane_at_ukans.edu http://www.ukans.edu/home/sloane Phone:(785)864-0444
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sloane, Bob [mailto:sloane_at_UKANS.EDU]
> Sent: Thursday, September 16, 1999 12:58 PM
> To: Tru64-Unix-Managers-Owner (E-mail)
> Subject: Problems mapping UID to name in V5.0
> 
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I just updated one of our TRU64 4.0D systems to 5.0. Everything seems
> to have worked OK, except that the system can't seem to map 
> the UID/GID to
> a username/groupname for non-root users.  If I do "ls -l" I 
> get numeric
> owners and groups.  For example:
> 
> ls -l /etc/passwd
> 
> -rw-r--r--   1 0      0       3258 Sep 16 10:41 /etc/passwd
> 
> I have checked the permissions on / (755), on /etc (755), on
> /etc/passwd (644), and on /etc/passwd.pag and passwd.dir (644).
> I can cat the passwd and group files.  If I run the same commands
> as root, everything works fine so this must be some sort of permission
> problem.  What am I missing here?
> -- 
> Bob Sloane, University of Kansas Computer Center, Lawrence, KS, 66045
> sloane_at_ukans.edu http://www.ukans.edu/home/sloane Phone:(785)864-0444
> 

Received on Thu Sep 16 1999 - 18:31:32 NZST