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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



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