user id problem

[covici at ccs dot covici dot com (John Covici)]

Hi.  I am having problems getting my user id properly recognized by
programs (ncftp in this case, but it might be a general problem).

If I have no /etc/passwd ncftp says I don't know who you are, but you
have a gid of 500, but no userid.

If I create /etc/passwd it seems to find the userid, but then can't
find my existing home environment variable -- and it uses the root
directory to save its .ncftp directory.

Also, I am getting permission denied if I try to ls /hard1/ ... where
/hard1 is where I have mounted by C: drive (the root is e:).

Any assistance would be appreciated.


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         John Covici
          covici@ccs.covici.com
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