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- From: dreier@fb5.uni-siegen.de (Ralf Dreier)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: time, whoami
- Date: 7 Jan 1993 07:09:43 GMT
- Organization: University of Siegen
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- Message-ID: <1igkvnINN2ea@homer-lab.FB5.Uni-Siegen.DE>
- References: <1993Jan5.130716.27695@athena.mit.edu>
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- Hello,
-
- some days ago, I had the same problem with the whoami command. The whoami command
- gets its information from the file /etc/passwd. In the SLS distribution this file
- is not readable for a normal user. Change it and you have no more problems with
- whoami.
-
- Ralf
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