[OLUG] problems with passwd

[John P McDaniel]

anyone ever see this happen before?

[root] ~$ passwd
passwd: cannot retrieve user's name
[root] ~$ whoami
root
[root] ~$

------ or -------

[jpm] ~$ passwd
passwd: cannot retrieve user's name
[jpm] ~$ whoami
jpm
[jpm] ~$

this happens to all users on my machine if they are in a X session or
remotely logged in but users can execute passwd just fine if they log
on to the console.  root can passwd if i specify a username.

Thanks in advance,
- John


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