Fun with passwd files
matt .
fasterdisco at gmail.com
Sat Nov 26 22:31:31 GMT 2005
Hey folks,
I wonder if anybody can help me out here...
FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE
I'm doing a user migration. I'm manually populating the /etc/master.passwd
with user entries from the old box. I run pwd_mkdb on the
master.passwdfile. This was working dandy until a few moments ago. I
added a user, then
attempted to delete the user using "pw userdel <username>" and I get this:
host# pw userdel jschneider
pw: user 'jschneider' does not exist: No such file or directory
This was weird. I can usermod, usershow and finger "jschneider" just fine.
When I change jschneider's password using passwd, magically I am now able to
delete him using "pw userdel".
I found out jschneider was being added to /etc/master.passwd but not into
/etc/passwd. However previous users I had manually added using the same
method did end up in the /etc/passwd file. So I'm confused. Now it seems
any user I manually add to master.passwd and run pwd_mkdb on, doesn't get
populated into /etc/passwd. Any clue what's going on here?
kind regards,
matt
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