'id' failing

[David A. Cobb]

Scott, BINGO!  Many thanks

Scott Henson wrote:
> David A. Cobb wrote:
>
>   
>> I have needed to tear my system down and start over from the CD a
>> couple of times now.  Up until now, it has been successful to save my
>> /etc/passwd, /etc/group, and /etc/shadow files so I don't lose my
>> (human) accounts. 
>>
>>
>> Can anyone suggest where I should look?
>>     
>
>
> Your /etc/passwd likely has bad premisions.
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root    769 2005-10-20 09:48 group
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root   1357 2005-10-20 09:48 passwd
> -rw-r-----  1 root shadow  891 2005-10-20 09:48 shadow
>
>   

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David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate
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