On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 06:48:43PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Ok, this is strange. I have a FreeBSD 4.2 system, and I have a 'pop' entry in
> the passwd file, UID 68. popauth doesn't think so. When I run popauth -init It
> returns this error:
> popauth: "68": userid unknown
>
> I took a peek at the source, and this error is returned upon failure of
> getpwnam. I am not entirely sure if this is a configuration problem within my
> system or if popauth is smocking crack. Does anyone know?
Do you have a shadow passwd file? Is the account in that one as well?
Is your :68: UID properly formatted in the first place? Count ':'s.
Try su'ing to the account, create a file in /tmp, see what ls -l says.
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