user id

[Mazen Al-Jarrah]

Hello everyone,
I have a hpux 11.0 server part of an NIS domain, everything looks ok, but when I type in the command "id" for any user except root, it's showing the user id number without the user id name as follows:
" uid=201() gid=201(i2k)"
and this is causing the system to keep asking for a user password when I try to start the application installed on that server.

thanking you in advance for your cooperation and help

[Michael Steele_2 · Accepted solution]

There are 24 patches in 11.00 needed for NIS. See attached.

'pwck' on /etc/passwd and on the output of ypcat-k passwd. Verify the passwd map file for corruption and completenes, i.e., invalid line after root.

Can you 'finger id' and get same problems?

Check /etc/wtmp and /etc/utmp for corruption with:

# last account

Zero out if corrupt:

# cat /dev/null > wtmp

[Michael Steele_2]

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