Re: uid instead of username?!

[Larry Jones]

Leif Hanack writes:
> 
> inside the log messages the author name is listed as s.th. like 'uid505'
> instead of the corresponding username, see below:

That means that getpwuid(505) returned a null pointer.  It may be that
that routine (and its friends) use some kind of a database rather than
the /etc/passwd file, or you could have a permissions problem.  Check
the man page for getpwuid(2) for details of its operation.

-Larry Jones

You just can't ever be too careful. -- Calvin