User name changed to number

[Bill Campbell]

On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 06:05:32PM -0400, edj wrote:

>Thanks.  I checked /etc/passwd against a version from a backup, and 
>they're identical.  A result of all this is that no user can log in at 
>all.  Because root's stuff is still root:root, all's well with it.  An 
>attempt to "su" from root to edj yields a "Permission denied" - I guess 
>because edj's been hosed from the system.

What's in /etc/shadow?  Are you using NIS, or LDAP authentication?

Bill
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