adduser error

[Scot Hetzel]

On 3/14/07, Scot Hetzel <swhetzel at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/14/07, zen <zen at tk-pttuntex.com> wrote:
> > dear users,
> >  i have problem with my fresh FreeBSD 6.2 RELEASE
> > i can not adduser to this machine, the error logs was:
> >
> > ns1# pw adduser zen -g wheel -d /home/zen -s /bin/csh
> > pwd_mkdb: corrupted entry
> > pwd_mkdb: at line #12
> > pwd_mkdb: /etc/master.passwd: Inappropriate file type or format
> > pw: user 'zen' disappeared during update
> > ns1# pw adduser zen -g wheel -d /home/zen -s /bin/csh
> > pwd_mkdb: corrupted entry
> > pwd_mkdb: at line #12
> > pwd_mkdb: /etc/master.passwd: Inappropriate file type or format
> > pw: user 'zen' disappeared during update
> >
> > please help regarding this problem
> >
>
> You have a corrupt entry on line 12 of /etc/master.passwd.  Open
> /etc/maser.passwd using vipw.  Then go to line 12, and make sure that
> all the fields are there for line #12.
>
> name:passwd:uid:gid:class:change:expire:gecos:home_dir:shell
>
> daemon:*:1:1::0:0:Owner of many system processes:/root:/usr/sbin/nologin
>
NOTE: in version 1.40 of the master.passwd file the 12th line is:

man:*:9:9::0:0:Mister Man Pages:/usr/share/man:/usr/sbin/nologin

Scot
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