From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 6 04:39:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA29577 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 6 Feb 1998 04:39:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mutsgo.dyn.ml.org (kf7nn@dal13-22.ppp.iadfw.net [206.66.4.152]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA29572 for ; Fri, 6 Feb 1998 04:39:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kf7nn@mutsgo.dyn.ml.org) Received: (from kf7nn@localhost) by mutsgo.dyn.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.7) id GAA00247 for questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 6 Feb 1998 06:39:39 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from kf7nn) From: George Vagner Message-Id: <199802061239.GAA00247@mutsgo.dyn.ml.org> Subject: voodoo usernames To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 06:39:39 -0600 (CST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" I recently underwent a major rebuilding of the system which included replacing my 2.5 gig HDD with a 5 GIG primary and 3.1 GIG secondary HDD. previously i had all of my system on the 2.5 GIG HDD but i removed it and put it in another machine. I did a complete reinstall of 2.2.5 and cvsupped up to -stable made new kernel etc all of this went well. here is my question. How the heck do i still have my users on my system? for instance i never created a user "vagner" on this system but i did on the old system, there is no directory /home/vagner but i can still log in to the system as vagner...and it creates the directory for me! this seems impossible unless usernames are stored on the net or something?