FreeBSD 5.3 forgets some of my users

[Doug White]

Stripping -bugs and -current cc; this applies to -stable and isn't in
reference to an existing PR.

On Sat, 21 May 2005, [ISO-8859-1] Kövesdán Gábor wrote:

> Hello there,
>
> there is a strange thing.... FreeBSD 5.3 randomly frogets some of my
> users. Sometimes I see in the first column of the ps aux output the uid
> number instead of the login name, but next when I run it, there is the
> login name. Besides, I tried to chown a directory to an existing user,
> but the I get an error message, that there wasn't such user.

What are you using for user lookups?  Are you using nss_ldap or something
other than the default 'files' lookup?  Can you post the contents of
/etc/nsswitch.conf?

I'd also check your master.passwd file for any syntax errors or odd
characters and then force a rebuild with:

pwd_mkdb -p /etc/master.passwd

as root.

> I immediately checked passwd, group and master.passwd files in /etc but
> the entry for that user was present there. The pw userdel was unable to
> delete that user, so I had to manually remove it from those three files
> and create it again. It worked then, but a bit later there was the same
> result. I'm quite annoyed now. This state isn't safe enough, I have to
> do something to get around with this. Do You have similar experiences?
> Or do You now some kinda workaround?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Gábor Kövesdán
>
>
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