adduser error

[Scot Hetzel]

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

Scot
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