username not shown in ps -ef output

[johnsonpk]

Check the integrity of passwd file by running pwck

Also post the permission of /etc/passwd and contents of /etc/nsswitch.conf file

[NDO]

Hi, All

For some reason everthing is back to normal, that is before I run the pwck comand which the output is:mpecu007[389] /tmp # pwck > /tmp/pwck.out

smbnull:*:101:101:DO NOT USE OR DELETE - needed by Samba:/home/smbnull:/sbin/sh
Login directory not found

postgres:*:378:20:PostgresSQL,,,:/usr/local/pgsql:/usr/bin/sh
Login directory not found
.........................................

The paswwd file is not encrypted, please find attached the file.

But I'm a bit nervous because now everthing is fine, ps -ef it does show the username, and the whoami comand shows me root.
Please can you give me some hints.

Fernando

[Dennis Handly]

>the whoami com and shows me root.

Did you su from root?

[NDO]

Yes, I was root.

Fernando

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi (again):

You have yet to verify that the permissions of your '/etc/passwd' file are "-r--r--r--".

Regards!

...JRF...

[NDO]

Hi all!

Thank you very for your contributions, I appreciate your help, but now I'm gonna have to close this thread and assign some points to all you.

Thank you

Bye

Fernando

[NDO]

thank you all

Fernando

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi (again) Fernando:

> but now I'm gonna have to close this thread and assign some points to all you.

That's very nice, but more importantly exactly *what* caused your problem?

Regards!

...JRF...