Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 14:25:31 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com> To: FBSD-Q <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: rob@cyberpunkz.org Subject: Re: STRANGE issue with UIDs Message-ID: <20010917142531.E14830@ns2.wananchi.com> In-Reply-To: <20010917030555.A84804@switchblade.cyberpunkz.org> References: <20010917105843.B14830@ns2.wananchi.com> <20010917030555.A84804@switchblade.cyberpunkz.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] * Rob Andrews <rob@cyberpunkz.org> [20010917 11:05]: writing on the subject 'Re: STRANGE issue with UIDs' | On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 10:58:43AM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: | > Someone has seen this one???? UID's existing twice??? | | Its not uncommon for some admins to assign a uid to multiple | users on a system. Until today, I've had only one ocassion to have two users share a UID but not this whole bunch. I have to do away with the duplication, somehow and I believe someone more knoledgeable can help me. I can also do it manually if that's the only option open to me. | If you wish to not see those warnings when running adduser then set the -silent option as it tells | you when you are adding the user and you won't have to see those messages. Well, I did not even know of the existence of this issue until my colleague did adduser -v | The output is showing you the uid and the crossed usernames | to which are associated. If you didn't add those users and | are concerned you should probably inquire with someone the | purpose for their doing that. Hmm, I don't think there is any reason someone did this, especially because those are e-mail aonly accounts without shells. I need a way of sorting that out. I will need to assign the users new UIDs and I'm wondering if I have to do that manually. -Wash -- Odhiambo Washington Wananchi Online Ltd., wash@wananchi.com 1st Flr Loita Hse. Tel: 254 2 313985 Loita Street., Fax: 254 2 313922 PO Box 10286,00100-NAIROBI,KE. There were truths to be learnt and there was wisdom to be gained... but there was a price to to be paid as well. You could not brush up against the future and escape unscathed. You could not see into the forbidden and avoid damage to your sight. -Terry Brooks, First King of Shannara [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7pd2rn7LIsuxjem8RArf+AJ9GX2/PRNXmFXfG6wXoorHrXnDr5QCfaRfn VNmadisjSWXw12BXyNGgi54= =fnBz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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