unknown user id oracle

[mahipal singh]

when i login as a oracle user ,it's not showing username as oracle instead of id as file description of oracle user.


The output of ll command , showing oracle id(700)instaed of oracle as user.

-rw-r--r-- 1 700 oinstall 0 Sep 12 14:32 st

If i am trying to change ownership of any file , prompt error "chown: unknown user id orale"

Please help me how to fix it.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Database is up and running .

[Dennis Handly]

Are you using NIS? You need to stop and restart.

[Vihang.]

Hi Mahipal,

What does "grep oracle /etc/passwd" say? Has anyone removed the oracle user from /etc/passwd file? If its not listed under /etc/passwd, then you probably need to recreate. This solution is assuming you dont have a trusted system.


Regards,
Vihang.

[Sandeep_Chaudhary]

is the directory NFS mount.
if yes then uid and username should match with the syetm exporting that filesystem.

[TTr]

Look at the passwd file entry for oracle. Is the user ID for the oracle account 700? If not you have to either change it to 700 or change the user owner of all oracle files to the new oracle id. You have to do it as root.

Other things to look for are the permissions of /etc and /etc/passwd.

[SKR_1]

Check /etc/passwd file for oracle user.

grep oracle /etc/passwd.

You may need to recreate the oracle user. Or check for the uid of oracle user.

Thanks

SKR

[Trng]

check the permission of /etc/passwd file and compare with working setup

[mahipal singh]

Same has been resolved by changing permission of /etc/passwd.
It seems somebody has changed permission for that file.