Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 10:02:19 -0500 (EST) From: Steve Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net> To: Leif Neland <leifn@darla.swimsuit.roskildebc.dk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: root != userid 0?!? Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.971120100135.14308K-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net> In-Reply-To: <386_9711201032@swimsuit.roskildebc.dk>
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Sounds like something is corrupted - check master.passwd and maybe run a pwd_mkdb on it - or a chpass root and make some cosmetic change to get it to do it for you. There NIS running on it? On 20 Nov 1997, Leif Neland wrote: > One system can not translate user id 0 to the text "root" > > e.g. if I do a ls -l on a file owned by root, its ownership gets shown as "0 wheel", while another file might be "bin bin". > vi also complains it can't put a name on 0 for a restore-copy. > > I can do a "chown root somefile" > > the /etc/passwd-file are identical to the /etc/passwd on another system where it works: the userid is 0:0 > > What am I supposed to look for? > > > Leif Neland > leifn@image.dk > > --- > |Fidonet: Leif Neland 2:234/49 > |Internet: leifn@image.dk > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ Steve Hovey Chief Engineer BuffNET More Than Just a Connection! ------------------------------------------------------------------
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