Unable to set uid/gid

[Ravi_8]

Hi,

In one of my machine running 11i, when a user tried to login after the passwd entry it throws the error "Unable to set uid/gid" and closes the connection. whereas for root it work fine. what could be the problem?
( system is not trusted)

[Mark Grant · Accepted solution]

Is it possible that you have "sudo" somewhere in the users login scripts? If so, I would imagine this error comes from not being able to change the ownership od the tempory sudoers file. At least that's what it looks like from the source of visudo.

[Pete Randall]

Ravi,

Corrupted password file??? Try running pwchk/grpchk.


Pete

[Pete Randall]

Ravi,

Sorry, make that pwck/grpck!!

Pete

[Sunil Sharma_1]

Check the permission of passwd file not /etc/passwd but on /usr/bin/passwd it should have permission like this

-r-sr-xr-x 5 root bin 45056 Nov 14 2000 passwd

in your passwd file set uid may not be there.

Sunil

[Sanjay Kumar Suri]

If you are using NIS, pwck and grpck check only the local password and group files.

The NIS database for password and group files is not checked.

sks

[Ravi_8]

Thanx Mark/Pete

I have AFS in the machine, since AFS was down it's giving me the error.

thanx for the help