From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 17 4:26:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns2.wananchi.com (mail.wananchi.com [62.8.64.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5336837B403 for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 04:26:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wash by ns2.wananchi.com with local (Exim 3.33 #1) id 15iwWp-000EQB-00; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 14:25:31 +0300 Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 14:25:31 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: FBSD-Q Cc: rob@cyberpunkz.org Subject: Re: STRANGE issue with UIDs Message-ID: <20010917142531.E14830@ns2.wananchi.com> Mail-Followup-To: Odhiambo Washington , FBSD-Q , rob@cyberpunkz.org References: <20010917105843.B14830@ns2.wananchi.com> <20010917030555.A84804@switchblade.cyberpunkz.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="OwLcNYc0lM97+oe1" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010917030555.A84804@switchblade.cyberpunkz.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i X-Disclaimer: My opinions do not necessarily represent those of my employer. X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.4-RC i386 X-Designation: Systems Administrator, Wananchi Online Ltd. X-Location: Nairobi, KE, East Africa. X-Uptime: 2:09PM up 11 days, 22:04, 4 users, load averages: 0.09, 0.17, 0.12 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --OwLcNYc0lM97+oe1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable * Rob Andrews [20010917 11:05]: writing on the subject= 'Re: STRANGE issue with UIDs' | On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 10:58:43AM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: | > Someone has seen this one???? UID's existing twice??? |=20 | Its not uncommon for some admins to assign a uid to multiple | users on a system. =20 Until today, I've had only one ocassion to have two users share a UID but n= ot this whole bunch. I have to do away with the duplication, somehow and I believe someone more = knoledgeable can help me. I can also do it manually if that's the only option open to me. | If you wish to not see those warnings when running adduser then set the -= silent option as it tells | you when you are adding the user and you won't have to see those messages. Well, I did not even know of the existence of this issue until my colleague= did adduser -v | The output is showing you the uid and the crossed usernames | to which are associated. If you didn't add those users and | are concerned you should probably inquire with someone the | purpose for their doing that. =20 Hmm, I don't think there is any reason someone did this, especially because= those are e-mail aonly accounts without shells. I need a way of sorting that out. I will need to assign the users new UIDs = and I'm wondering if I have to do that manually. -Wash -- Odhiambo Washington Wananchi Online Ltd., wash@wananchi.com 1st Flr Loita Hse. Tel: 254 2 313985 Loita Street., Fax: 254 2 313922 PO Box 10286,00100-NAIROBI,KE. There were truths to be learnt and there was wisdom to be gained... but the= re=20 was a price to to be paid as well. You could not brush up against the futur= e=20 and escape unscathed. You could not see into the forbidden and avoid damage= to=20 your sight.=20 -Terry Brooks, First King of Shannara=20 --OwLcNYc0lM97+oe1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7pd2rn7LIsuxjem8RArf+AJ9GX2/PRNXmFXfG6wXoorHrXnDr5QCfaRfn VNmadisjSWXw12BXyNGgi54= =fnBz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --OwLcNYc0lM97+oe1-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message