I have no name!@

your_shadow03 · 08-28-2008, 03:15 AM

I dont know what happened to my fedora machine.Whenever I am trying to login it says:

Code:

login as: saturn
saturn@10.14.242.168's password:
Last login: Thu Aug 28 13:03:39 2008 from 10.14.2.254
id: cannot find name for user ID 501
id: cannot find name for user ID 501
[I have no name!@atix ~]$

Whenever I try doing this:

Code:

[I have no name!@atix opt]$ sudo rm -fr fedora-ds/
Mail submission program must have RunAsUser set to non root user
saturn is not in the sudoers file.  This incident will be reported.

Any idea?

rocket357 · 08-28-2008, 03:18 AM

grep <user_name> /etc/passwd

Sounds like /etc/passwd got modified. I did the same on a FreeBSD machine one time and it asked me "who are you?", which made me feel a bit weird. heh.

Let me know if the command above gives you "sane" output.

your_shadow03 · 08-28-2008, 03:20 AM

I remember I had installed fedora DS on the same machine long back .is this Becoz of that?
if yes,then how can i delete that LDAP setup.
I notice that it has been installed on /opt directory.

What Should i do to remove LDAP/Fedora DS and bring it to point to Local System?

As for now, I cant do anything as it reports the error.

Pls help

your_shadow03 · 08-28-2008, 05:38 AM

I can see that /etc/shadow file doesnt exist.How can i bring it back?
Also I logged intom runlevel 1 and issue passwd command
it says:

Code:

passwd(pam_unix)[2053]:user "root" doesnt have modifiable password

Pls help