[UCLA-LUG] You don't exist, go away!

[David Parker]

I think i recall from somewhere that this really means that bash doesn't have
enough memory. I have no idea when or where I read that, so it might be totally
wrong, but hopefully it helps :)

David

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----- Original Message -----
From: Dimi Shahbaz <dimator@fire.csua.ucla.edu>
To: <linux@linux.ucla.edu>
Sent: Sunday, November 28, 1999 8:07 PM
Subject: [UCLA-LUG] You don't exist, go away!


> Well, I don't remember doing any damage to /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, or
> /etc/group, but now I'm running into "You don't exist, go away!" problems.
> The problems don't occur when I'm trying to login to my machine, but
> instead, I am being limited to telneting to fire only (ie, ssh gives me a
> permission denied). Once I telnet into fire, I get "You don't exist, go
> away!" errors when I try to ssh to somewhere else (say, one of the SEAS
> machines).
> I found a FAQ saying this had to do with the /etc/passwd or /etc/group
> files, and my login not being registered in the utmp file, but doesn't say
> how to fix it. Has anyone run into this?
>
> Thank you
>
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