Subject: Re: error: Who are you?

From: Jago <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 01:01:11 -0400

On Mon, 7 Oct 1996, RT wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am using Solaris 2.4 on Sparc machine and I have problems with pine
> 3.95.
> 
> I am able to use pine with no problems. However, some of my users
> getting the following error when they try to use pine:
> 
> "Who are you? (Unable to look up login name)"
> 
> What I have notice is that when I use the Unix command id I get
> differenet results for the users that have the problems and for myself.
> Myself I get the id as well as the user name while my users get the id
> number without the username (login name). 
> 
> I would appreciate any help.

I've had this happen to me too, and the only time it did was when I
allowed Pine to create too many .pine-debug# files.  After a fourth one
was made, Pine didn't know who I was.  I have no idea if this has anything
to do with that error message, but that's how it happened to me.  Try to
delete the .pine-debug# files to see if that helps.  I now use Pine with
the debug level off.

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From: Clifford Wesley Fulford <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 10:20:53 +0100 (BST)

It looks to me as if you are do not have secure RPC credentials. When you
login your UNIX password is found but your network credentials are not,
consequently USER is not being set (if you look carefully at the screen
during the login process you will see a message on the lines of 'unable to
set USER' flash up. It may be that your secure credentials do in fact
exist but the passwords are different, most administrators will try to
keep the two synchronised so that their users are not troubled by the the
2 login processes (login and keylogin).

If you or your systems admin would like help with sorting this out I can
help and I have a bunch of scripts to handle NIS+ problems of this nature
but I guess you'd better write to me directly as its a Solaris admin issue
not a pine one. (Unless there are dozens of Pine users out there with the
same problem and want to follow the discussion). 

 Clifford Wesley Fulford
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From: RT <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 04:21:33 GMT

Hi,

Thanks.

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