Re: Lsuser Not Reporting Correctly

From: Andrew Townsend (Andrew.Townsend_at_BISYS.COM)
Date: 10/26/04

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    Date:         Tue, 26 Oct 2004 09:02:56 -0400
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU

    So what's your solution?

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    All,

    Thanks for the help but what I think it is... is this

    I ran the mkpasswd command (about 6 months ago) which puts indexes on the
    passwd and lastlog file.. now the lastlog index is 5 months out of data and
    when I try and view the lastlog file I get a "out of memory" error, so what
    I think is wrong is the lastlog file is too large (23MB) and when a new
    user is created as the system can't properly read the lastlog file it can't
    put in the correct information, or something like that.

    Thanks
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          From: Toalston, Michael [mailto:MToalston@GEICO.COM]
          Sent: 26 October 2004 13:18
          To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
          Subject: Re: Lsuser Not Reporting Correctly

          Are you running the lsuser command from root? Results are different
          running as normal user on my 5.1 boxes.

          Michael Toalston
          Unix System Admin
          Geico Direct

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          Subject: Lsuser Not Reporting Correctly

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          Guru's,

          It would be great if any of you can help me out here..

          I am running the lsuser command on different ids and the results are
          not reporting any iformation after the "roles=" part. It seems to be
          either a flag isn't turned on or something else. Any new id that is
          created and logged in doesn't report all the information .i.e
          time_last_login=1098439418 etc even if root creates the id the same
          happens.

          The server is a M80, the OS is AIX 4.3.3.

          Thanks in advance

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