Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 16:32:26 -0500 From: "gerald stoller" <gerald_stoller@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: UID at login time Message-ID: <F244eUBUhr3ukkwu1Bt0000291f@hotmail.com>
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I installed FreeBSD 4.2 a few weeks ago, but unfortunately I didn't
get some stuff that I expected even though I asked for the X-KERN-Developer
download (from the CDROM ). When I installed FreeBSD 3.3 (over a year
ago) I believe that I got the pdksh downloaded from the CDROM .
I created two standard user accounts for me, which had the UIDs 1001
& 1002 . Recently, trying to the other stuff that I wanted ( pdksh ), I
ran a /stand/sysinstall on top of my previous installation. This
(somewhat) wiped out my accounts, so I used adduser to make one standard
user account for me, but its UID was assigned 1000 , ergo I couldn't
write to the files that I had created earlier. To fix this, I went into
/etc/passwd and changed my UID there from 1000 to 1001 . This doesn't
seem to work, when I do a ps it shows my UID to be 1000 . From where
does the login code get the user's UID ? What else would I have to fix so
that my UID will always be recognized as 1001 ? The next time that I use
adduser , I expect it will try to assign UID 1001 , where do I go to bump
that up so the next time it will try to assign UID 1002 ?
Is there documentation on this that I have missed, and if so, where is
it?
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