Date: Sun, 8 Feb 1998 22:59:26 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: George Vagner <kf7nn@mutsgo.dyn.ml.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: voodoo usernames Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980208225855.24904n-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199802061239.GAA00247@mutsgo.dyn.ml.org>
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On Fri, 6 Feb 1998, George Vagner wrote: > 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? You're using NIS? > 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? Is there an entry for vagner in `vipw'? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message
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