id doesn't show user name

[Supporto Unix]

hi,
on a 11.11 host, the output of id command doesn't show user name :
[hostname]/# id
uid=0() gid=3(sys) groups=0(root)
[h3mih108]/#
**************************************
[hostname]/# id -un

[hostname]/#
**************************************
[hostname]/# id bin
uid=2() gid=2(bin)
[hostname]/#

Has anyone a suggestion?

thanks in advance

Luigi

[John Poff]

Hi,

The 'id' command uses the 'logname' command, which calls the 'getlogname' function, which reads it from /etc/utmp. So maybe it is a permissions problem on /etc/utmp?

JP

[Pete Randall]

Luigi,

My 11.11 L-class shows:

root# uname -a
HP-UX manitoba B.11.11 U 9000/800 165901597 unlimited-user license
root# id
uid=0(root) gid=3(sys) groups=20(support),5(daemon),1(other),6(mail),22(sna),4(a
dm),2(bin),7(lp),10(tty),0(root)
root# id -un
root

What's your patch level?

Pete

[Martin Johnson]

Have you checked the permissions for /etc/passwd and /etc/group?

You you have pseudo root accounts (UID=0)? Multiple accounts with the same UID are not supported. You can experience problems with who, finger, and id if you have multiple accounts with the same UID.


HTH
Marty

[Darrell Allen]

Has root's entry in /etc/passwd been removed? That's one possibility.

Don't logout as root before you verify there's a superuser account in /etc/passwd.

Darrell

[Darrell Allen]

Re-read your post. If my theory is correct then the entry for bin has been removed also.

Darrell

[Supporto Unix]

[h3mih108]/# ll /etc/passwd
-r--r--r-- 1 0 sys 1841 Nov 15 11:51 /etc/passwd
[h3mih108]/# ll /etc/group
-r--r--r-- 1 2 bin 290 Nov 13 17:44 /etc/group
[h3mih108]/# ll /etc/utmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 root 3840 Nov 15 17:36 /etc/utmp
[h3mih108]/# whoami
Intruder alert.
[h3mih108]/# uname -a
HP-UX h3mih108 B.11.11 U 9000/800 182454681 unlimited-user license
[h3mih108]/#

i have /var full too...

that's all.
suggestions???

thanks

[Jean-Louis Phelix]

hi,

This message means that your /etc/passwd file is corrupted. Try a pwck.

Regards

[Supporto Unix]

Someone suggests me to do the following things:

[h3mih108]/var/spool/pwgr# ll
total 6
srwxrw-rw- 1 0 root 0 Jun 27 10:04 daemon
-rw------- 1 0 root 0 Nov 13 17:44 grp_gid_hash.dir
-rw------- 1 0 root 1024 Nov 13 17:44 grp_gid_hash.pag
-rw------- 1 0 root 0 Nov 13 17:44 grp_name_hash.dir
-rw------- 1 0 root 1024 Nov 13 17:44 grp_name_hash.pag
-rw------- 1 0 root 0 Nov 15 11:51 pwd_name_hash.dir
-rw------- 1 0 root 0 Nov 15 11:51 pwd_name_hash.pag
-rw------- 1 0 root 0 Nov 15 11:51 pwd_uid_hash.dir
-rw------- 1 0 root 0 Nov 15 11:51 pwd_uid_hash.pag
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 root 532 Nov 15 17:40 status
[h3mih108]/var/spool/pwgr# ps -ef|grep pwgrd
0 1092 1 2 Jun 27 ? 8:45 /usr/sbin/pwgrd
0 1159 5480 2 17:41:13 ttyp2 0:00 grep pwgrd
[h3mih108]/var/spool/pwgr# kill 1092
[h3mih108]/var/spool/pwgr# ps -ef|grep pwgrd
root 9398 5480 0 17:41:31 ttyp2 0:00 grep pwgrd
[h3mih108]/var/spool/pwgr# /usr/sbin/pwgrd
0 2534 5480 1 17:44:32 ttyp2 0:00 grep pwgrd
0 12950 1 39 17:41:39 ? 0:00 /usr/sbin/pwgrd
[h3mih108]/var/spool/pwgr#
[h3mih108]/var/spool/pwgr# whoami
Intruder alert.
[h3mih108]/var/spool/pwgr#

and nothing is changed.
i've tried to rm 3 file of 1.5GB under /var , it succeded, but bdf shown me /var 100% and du -k of /var show me more free space...

[Darrell Allen]

Your ll output shows the uid is not being resolved. Same symptom as the id output.

Have you verified root's passwd entry?

All indications are that something's wrong with /etc/passwd.

Darrell

[Martin Johnson]

The problem is that /var is full. Never let /var become full. It causes all sorts of nasty problems.

You need to make space in /var (either delete files or add space). You will have to do a reboot to clear up your problems.

HTH
Marty

[Martin Johnson]

Here is another thread on the problem:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x58264b3ef09fd611abdb0090277a778c,00.html

HTH
Marty

[Dimitry Snezhkov]

I had the same problem not so long ago.
Please do pwck . I have discovered a blank line at the and /etc/passwd and a couple of other things. Fix your /etc/passwd first.
Hope that helps.

Dimitry.

[Omololu Shobayo]

Is your problem related to the problem stated below? if yes follow the steps below.



Problem Description

I receive the following output
when I use the id command on a slave
YP server:

uid=112()

The user name is not appearing between
the parenthesis as expected.

The command does return the proper output,
however, when run on the master YP server.

What can I do to resolve this?

Configuration Info

Operating System - HP-UX
Version - 10.20
Hardware System - HP 9000
Series - K420

Solution

We recommend that you re-initialize the
slave server with ypinit -s to
correct this problem.