frecover user recognition issues

[MrViking]

I had to do a recovery and restore from backup (using ignite & backups from fbackup job) on hpux 10.20.

Problem is, all users (except root) receive error 'unknown user' when logging in (during script that checks quotas).

They can successfully log in to the system.
However, the files when viewed by the user using command ls -l show UID and groupID as opposed to the user & owner names. Commands and databases can't be accessed, because they are 'unknown users'. What happened from the frecover to cause this? The users are all in the /home directory. The files are all intact.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

The absence of the ability to map a name to a UID or GID points to no-read permissions on '/etc/passwd' and '/etc/group'. They should be readable by the owner, group and the world.

If those permissions are correct, verify that the '/etc' directory has read and execute permissions for the owern, group and the world, too.

Regards!

...JRF...