I have no name!@hostname

[Jayson Henkel <jhenkel@sterlingcrane.ca>]

Hello everyone,

I recently upgraded some packages on my debian box, at first look
everything looked ok, however I've now seen some odd problems.


Firstly, and directly related to the others is for some reason, although
I can login,  when I do so I get a prompt like this

I have no name!@rauru
Interestingly, I can't scp anything
for example
I have no name!@rauru:/var/www/timesheet$ scp add.php ruto:
unknown user 1039

Also getent passwd jhenkel doesn't fetch anything unless I run it as
root. 

As shown here:

I have no name!@rauru:/var/www/timesheet$ getent  passwd jhenkel
I have no name!@rauru:/var/www/timesheet$ sudo getent passwd jhenkel
jhenkel:x:1039:1000:Jayson Henkel:/home/jhenkel:/bin/bash

Can someone explain what all this behaviour means and how to correct it?





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Regards,

Jayson D. Henkel
Systems Manager

(Tel:  +1 (780) 440-4434)
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(Cell: +1 (780) 886-8941)
(E-Mail: jhenkel@sterlingcrane.ca)

Sterling Crane
P.O. Box 8610. Station South
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada. T6E 6R2

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