Yes freebsd has a shadow by default, in /etc/master.passwd. The entry there is
also set. su does not work because the account has no login permissions, no
home directory, but does that really matter? I can give it a home directory and
a shell...
On 14 Mar 2001, at 21:54, Joseph S D Yao wrote:
> 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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