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unknown user id oracle

mahipal singh — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 06:48:54 GMT

when i login as a oracle user ,it's not showing username as oracle instead of id as file description of oracle user.

The output of ll command , showing oracle id(700)instaed of oracle as user.

-rw-r--r-- 1 700 oinstall 0 Sep 12 14:32 st

If i am trying to change ownership of any file , prompt error "chown: unknown user id orale"

Please help me how to fix it.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Database is up and running .

Re: unknown user id oracle

Dennis Handly — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 06:51:33 GMT

Are you using NIS? You need to stop and restart.

Re: unknown user id oracle

Vihang. — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 06:54:27 GMT

Hi Mahipal,

What does "grep oracle /etc/passwd" say? Has anyone removed the oracle user from /etc/passwd file? If its not listed under /etc/passwd, then you probably need to recreate. This solution is assuming you dont have a trusted system.

Regards,
Vihang.

Re: unknown user id oracle

Sandeep_Chaudhary — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:15:22 GMT

is the directory NFS mount.
if yes then uid and username should match with the syetm exporting that filesystem.

Re: unknown user id oracle

TTr — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:50:55 GMT

Look at the passwd file entry for oracle. Is the user ID for the oracle account 700? If not you have to either change it to 700 or change the user owner of all oracle files to the new oracle id. You have to do it as root.

Other things to look for are the permissions of /etc and /etc/passwd.

Re: unknown user id oracle

SKR_1 — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:20:40 GMT

Check /etc/passwd file for oracle user.

grep oracle /etc/passwd.

You may need to recreate the oracle user. Or check for the uid of oracle user.

Thanks

SKR

Re: unknown user id oracle

Trng — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:23:21 GMT

check the permission of /etc/passwd file and compare with working setup

Re: unknown user id oracle

mahipal singh — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:12:49 GMT

Same has been resolved by changing permission of /etc/passwd.
It seems somebody has changed permission for that file.