ls -l or ll displays uid instead of owner name causing problem with oracle installation

[Maruti]

Hi PPL, I am using HPUX 11.23 on IA64. When I type ls -l in the command prompt of a normal user, the output is
fnsonlv4 /home/fnsonlv4 > ls -l
total 880
-rwxr-xr-x 1 0 sys 440320 Feb 9 15:36 fns_only.tar
-rw-r--r-- 1 110 fnsur 702 Feb 10 22:21 sqlnet.log

UID is displayed instead of owner name.

This is causing problem with Oracle Installation. The installer says it is unable to identify the username.

Is there any command or parameter of OS that got changed or I changed unknowingly which caused the above display????

Could any1 give solution???

ThanQ in advance

Maruti

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi Maruti:

Make sure that the permisssions of '/etc/passwd' are readable by everyone.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Maruti]

Thanx James....Done....Will carry on with Oracle installation....but I wonder how were the permissions of /etc/passwd got changed in the first place.....anyways HUGE Bundle of ThanX

[Maruti]

Got the solution from James