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ps showing user id not username

Hi,

I'm having this really odd problem with the test cluster (Ubuntu/Dapper + heartbeat 2.0.7) that I'm currently setting up.

I think the following summises it nicely:-

# id hacluster
uid=105(hacluster) gid=111(haclient) groups=111(haclient)

# grep hacluster /etc/passwd
hacluster:x:105:111:Heartbeat System Account,,,:/usr/lib/heartbeat:/bin/false

# grep hacluster /etc/shadow
hacluster:<snip - was valid hash!>:13412:0:99999:7:::

# ps -ef | grep heart
root      4767     1  0 13:51 ?        00:00:00 heartbeat: master control process
root      4804  4767  0 13:51 ?        00:00:00 heartbeat: FIFO reader      
root      4805  4767  0 13:51 ?        00:00:00 heartbeat: write: bcast eth1
root      4806  4767  0 13:51 ?        00:00:00 heartbeat: read: bcast eth1
105       4849  4767  0 13:55 ?        00:00:00 /usr/lib/heartbeat/ccm
105       4850  4767  0 13:55 ?        00:00:13 /usr/lib/heartbeat/cib
nobody    4851  4767  0 13:55 ?        00:00:00 /usr/lib/heartbeat/lrmd
root      4852  4767  0 13:55 ?        00:00:00 /usr/lib/heartbeat/stonithd
105       4853  4767  0 13:55 ?        00:00:00 /usr/lib/heartbeat/attrd
105       4854  4767  0 13:55 ?        00:00:00 /usr/lib/heartbeat/crmd
root      4855  4767  0 13:55 ?        00:00:01 /usr/lib/heartbeat/mgmtd -v
105       4856  4767  0 13:55 ?        00:00:00 /usr/lib/heartbeat/pingd -h 192.168.100.1 -m 100 -d 5s

As you can see 'ps -ef' isn't showing hacluster but instead is showing the uid of 105.

Also worth noting is that heartbeat is telling these processes to run as "hacluster" so it's getting that bit right, it's almost as if it can't reverse lookup the userid but I'm just guessing now!

Any ideas are most appreciated...
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ircpamanager

maybe a shot in the dark here, is there a user and group named hacluster?
Remove the following two lines from your /etc/nscd.conf file:

enable-cache passwd no
enable-cache group no

Then restart the nscd service.
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# apt-cache policy nscd
nscd:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 2.3.6-0ubuntu20
  Version table:
     2.3.6-0ubuntu20 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com dapper/universe Packages


nscd isn't installed...

and...

# grep hacluster /etc/group
#

It's really puzzling!
what if   cat /etc/passwd | grep -i 105
Sources are here:
http://procps.cvs.sourceforge.net/procps/

It uses getpwuid(uid) to get the name.  So, the issue is down in that library.

Here's one version of that source:
getpwuid.c - http://www.google.com/codesearch?hl=en&q=+getpwuid+show:GCao5GWOX6Y:j2b_exIQ6aE:1sGKCqgnoog&sa=N&cd=3&ct=rc&cs_p=http://gentoo.osuosl.org/distfiles/Dev86src-0.16.17.tar.gz&cs_f=dev86-0.16.17/libc/getent/getpwuid.c#a0
__getwpent.c - http://www.google.com/codesearch?hl=en&q=show:von9tHYpwHY:j2b_exIQ6aE:stycz_AjqEA&sa=N&ct=rd&cs_p=http://gentoo.osuosl.org/distfiles/Dev86src-0.16.17.tar.gz&cs_f=dev86-0.16.17/libc/getent/__getpwent.c

Possible reasons:
The line in passwd may be malformed.

Maybe you're not  using that version of getpwuid above.  Are you on an LDAP based network?  Then you might be using different libraries, and the libraries aren't reading /etc/passwd.
I am on an LDAP based network, but, nsswitch.conf shows the following:-

passwd:         files ldap
group:          files ldap
shadow:         files ldap
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