From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 8 23:30:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA29123 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 8 Feb 1998 23:28:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA29058 for ; Sun, 8 Feb 1998 23:28:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA25217; Sun, 8 Feb 1998 22:59:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sun, 8 Feb 1998 22:59:26 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: George Vagner cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: voodoo usernames In-Reply-To: <199802061239.GAA00247@mutsgo.dyn.ml.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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