On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, Erwan Esnault wrote: > I have debian 2.0 with shadow passwds enabled, and when I log in with a > normal user account, I cannot get my login with e.g. id -un or whoami !. > It says 'Unable to find user 1001' or something like that. >
As far as I know, the shadow passwds utility creates a new file in /etc named: shadow . This file contains all information supressed by the '*' in the passwd file in the same directory. I believe that what is happening is that the shadowpasswd utility moved the information you need from the file /etc/passwd to /etc/shadow . However, I have no idea how you should write a script (?) to be able to get this information for the programs you mentioned... Perhapswhat I am saying to you is a bit old; but I also upgraded my system and installed shadowpasswds, but I have just seen my /etc/passwd and the number you mention above is still there! Perhaps you could solve this in a very stupid way: by copying from one file to the other these numbers; in case that's what really happenned. > I added all my accounts with the 'adduser' utility... > > Please HEELP me ! I have several applications that need these > informations. e.g. Applix, or any mail client... > > -- _______________________________________________________________________ Daniel Doro Ferrante email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network & System Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cecm.usp.br/~danieldf CECM - Curso de Ciências Moleculares - USP Course of Molecular Sciences - University of São Paulo - Brazil