RE: [suse-security] vanished user accounts?

14 May 2001

      You may also find that the system is saving the username/group as a number, 
and simply recreating the user doesn't mean they inherit the old 
permissions.

I have noticed that when using YaST it often deletes and re-adds when you 
edit a username or group.

Marco van Beek.

-----Original Message-----
From:	Peer-Christoph Mettelem 
[SMTP:Peer-Christoph.Mettelem@bezreg-muenster.nrw.de]
Sent:	Monday, May 14, 2001 11:53 AM
To:	suse-security
Subject:	RE: [suse-security] vanished user accounts?

never use test as username, dirname or something. It's a command
and may cause problems.

-----Original Message-----
From: Night Watcher [mailto:theeagle84@hotmail.com]
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 12:43 PM
To: suse-security@suse.com
Subject: [suse-security] vanished user accounts?

    Hi all, i have the following problem on my three suse 7.0 and
one 7.1
box,
    after a while when i wanted to log in under my test account,
the message
    was, cannot switch to homedir (no access or something)

    i relogged in under my root account and then i wanted to
correct this
    problem, i used midnight commander to look where the
directory and user
    permissions of the /home/test account were, these stuff were
correctly
    displayed: i found out that all the permissions still
belonged to user
test,

    this was very strange in my opinion, i thought well that is
not right
but
    reinstall might help, so i did that, and then my other three
boxes
    suddenly displayed the same problem, all after 2 to 3 weeks,

    i am pretty sure that i didn't change the userpermissions on
the
machines (
    i can make an mistake but not on 4 machines :)*)
    so i am guessing that it's an bug,
    removing the users and readding them does NOT work,

    so anyone, can u help me?
    or someone of the SuSE team : is this correcT?

    met vriendelijke groeten,
    with kind regards,
    Remko
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