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Date:      Tue, 16 Jan 1996 20:23:37 +0100 (MET)
From:      Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
To:        aharpham@cnweb.com (Allen D. Harpham)
Cc:        Hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: adduser problem
Message-ID:  <199601161923.UAA16883@keltia.freenix.fr>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9601160930.D5866-0100000@nebland.cnweb.com> from "Allen D. Harpham" at Jan 16, 96 09:19:48 am

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It seems that Allen D. Harpham said:
> A person logs in as say user1  when they do a whoami it says thay are user2
> (user2 is another person on the system and doesn't notice any problems).
> When user1 sends a message the return address is user2@hastings.edu.  This
> is a permanent situation until I delete user1 from the system and recreate him.
> I assume that there might be a glich in the adduser program.

I'd say that both users have the same uid.
 
> Everything on the system appears to be running normally.  The system is 
> running FreeBSD 2.0.

Uh? Really 2.0 ? Upgrade to 2.1.0 as soon as you can :-)

-- 
Ollivier ROBERT    -=- The daemon is FREE! -=-    roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net
   FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #1: Wed Jan 10 02:23:42 MET 1996



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