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Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 12:44:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: Steve Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net>
To: Costa Morris <costa@inner.cortx.com>
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Subject: Re: unable to look up login name
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On Tue, 15 Jul 1997, Costa Morris wrote:

> i get this error:
> 
> %>pine
> Who are you? (Unable to look up login name)
> 
> When i do a "whomai" i get the UID intstead of the name.  what could be the
> problem?
> 
Sounds like you lost your password file.