Stripping -bugs and -current cc; this applies to -stable and isn't in reference to an existing PR.
On Sat, 21 May 2005, [ISO-8859-1] Kövesdán Gábor wrote: > Hello there, > > there is a strange thing.... FreeBSD 5.3 randomly frogets some of my > users. Sometimes I see in the first column of the ps aux output the uid > number instead of the login name, but next when I run it, there is the > login name. Besides, I tried to chown a directory to an existing user, > but the I get an error message, that there wasn't such user. What are you using for user lookups? Are you using nss_ldap or something other than the default 'files' lookup? Can you post the contents of /etc/nsswitch.conf? I'd also check your master.passwd file for any syntax errors or odd characters and then force a rebuild with: pwd_mkdb -p /etc/master.passwd as root. > I immediately checked passwd, group and master.passwd files in /etc but > the entry for that user was present there. The pw userdel was unable to > delete that user, so I had to manually remove it from those three files > and create it again. It worked then, but a bit later there was the same > result. I'm quite annoyed now. This state isn't safe enough, I have to > do something to get around with this. Do You have similar experiences? > Or do You now some kinda workaround? > > Cheers, > > Gábor Kövesdán > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"