Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 02:53:40 -0500 From: "gerald stoller" <gerald_stoller@hotmail.com> To: lucas@slb.to Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UID at login time Message-ID: <F76LYCT4aJ6pkNzPZrI00003114@hotmail.com>
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>From: Lucas Bergman <lucas@slb.to>
>Reply-To: lucas@slb.to
>To: gerald stoller <gerald_stoller@hotmail.com>
>CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
>Subject: Re: UID at login time
>Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 16:43:49 -0600
>
> > 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, ...
>
>Yeah, when you use /stand/sysinstall on a running system, don't do one
>of the "canned" install options, or it will probably blow away files
>you don't want it to.
I wanted to deselect some items (particularly binaries) and just load
the src files, but it seems I didn't do it. Also, I don't know from what
type of source passwd is loaded.
>
> > ...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.
>
>There are two password files, /etc/passwd and /etc/master.passwd, the
>latter being only readable by uid 0. If I were you, I'd make sure the
>changes you made to /etc/passwd are also in /etc/master.passwd. The
>commands pwd_mkdb(8) and vipw(8) should be a big help here.
>
>An alternative, of course, is to leave yourself as uid 1000, and do
>
> # chown -R yourname.yourname ~yourname
>
>to give your new uid ownership of your home directory.
>
> > The next time that I use adduser, I expect it will try to assign UID
> > 1001,...
>
>No, looking at the source of adduser, it looks like it grabs the next
>_available_ uid out of the passwd file.
Good, I'm glad to see this.
>
>Lucas
Thanks for all the information.
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