[CLUE-Tech] I have no name!

[David Anselmi]

Friedman, Jason wrote:
> I was having troubles with my kernel because of a botched upgrade.
> 
> So, I copied my /home, /root, and /etc directories off to someplace safe
> and did a full install with RedHat 8.0, being careful not to change the
> existing disk partitioning and to not format the partition holding those
> copies of /home, /root, and /etc.  The install went smoothly, my files
> are still there.  I deleted the default /etc and put in its place the
> previous one.
> 
> Now, when I log in as a non-root user, I get this message:
> 
> id: cannot find name for user ID 500

Probably your /etc/passwd is not world readable.  Its mode should be 644 
with owner and group root.

Dave