illumos gate

I recently logged in on the console, changed my uid (in /etc/passwd), and then logged out.

After logging out, ttymon crashed in a fast loop:

% ls -l /var/cores/0.tty* | wc -l
155

 sudo pstack /var/cores/0.ttymon.17163-1305856103  
core '/var/cores/0.ttymon.17163-1305856103' of 17163:   /usr/lib/saf/ttymon -g -d /dev/console -l console -m ldterm,ttcompat -
 fedc6dae is_login_user (ff99, 80477b0, fef75880, fedc6e55) + 9e
 fedc6ede dir_dev_acc (80693e0, 80476d4, 0, 0, 180, 80477b0) + 9a
 fedc719b dir_dev_acc (8066c38, 80476cf, 0, 0, 180, 80477b0) + 357
 fedc719b dir_dev_acc (feddf88c, 80476cb, 0, 0, 180, 80477b0) + 357
 fedc684f logindevperm (8047eba, 0, 0, 0) + 2fb
 fedc7430 di_devperm_logout (8047eba, 8065708, 8047eba, 0) + 44
 08053fb6 open_device (8065708, 8065708, 8047d88, 8059eaa) + 1de
 08059eca ttymon_express (b, 8047ddc, 80656d8, 80536a8) + 1e6
 080537e4 main     (b, 8047ddc, 8047e0c, feffbafc) + 148
 0805360d _start   (b, 8047ea0, 8047eb4, 8047eb7, 8047eba, 8047ec7) + 7d

The only way to halt the crash loop was to re-add a user with the problem uid to the system (that is, the 0xff99 uid).