Re: strange pw behaviour

2004-07-03 Thread Jonas Sonntag
On Friday 02 July 2004 20:25, Charles Swiger wrote: > How many groups is the www user in?  By default, the system only > permits a user to belong to up to 16 groups... That fits. User www is in 19 groups total and gets Permission denied on three. Thanks a lot for the hint Chuck! I found the sysct

Re: strange pw behaviour

2004-07-02 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jul 2, 2004, at 6:47 AM, Jonas Sonntag wrote: must ask again... I'm still stuck with this. It's pretty weird. I have 10 directories each owned by a unique group. All 10 directories are set 750. The groups have been added using pw and user www has been made a member of every group by using pw.

Re: strange pw behaviour

2004-07-02 Thread Jonas Sonntag
On Friday 02 July 2004 15:09, Bill Moran wrote: > The only other thought I have is that you might have some invalid user > names? (I'm really reaching here ...) > > Can you attach the group file so we can verify the syntax. I really don't think so... all entries come from pw and pw get's called th

Re: strange pw behaviour

2004-07-02 Thread Bill Moran
Jonas Sonntag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Bill, > > first of all, thanks for the input! > > On Friday 02 July 2004 13:58, Bill Moran wrote: > > Did you add the users/groups to the jail, or to the host system? Make sure > > that the group file you added this to is the same group file that is

Re: strange pw behaviour

2004-07-02 Thread Jonas Sonntag
Hi Bill, first of all, thanks for the input! On Friday 02 July 2004 13:58, Bill Moran wrote: > Did you add the users/groups to the jail, or to the host system? Make sure > that the group file you added this to is the same group file that is being > used by the program. For example, on one of my

Re: strange pw behaviour

2004-07-02 Thread Bill Moran
Jonas Sonntag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi list, > > must ask again... I'm still stuck with this. It's pretty weird. I have 10 > directories each owned by a unique group. All 10 directories are set 750. > The groups have been added using pw and user www has been made a member of > every group

Re: strange pw behaviour

2004-07-02 Thread Jonas Sonntag
Hi list, must ask again... I'm still stuck with this. It's pretty weird. I have 10 directories each owned by a unique group. All 10 directories are set 750. The groups have been added using pw and user www has been made a member of every group by using pw. This has worked a hundred times. Inform

strange pw behaviour

2004-06-25 Thread Jonas Sonntag
Hi questions-list, I'm experiencing some strange behaviour when using pw on a 4.9-STABLE system to add and modify a group within a virtual server running inside a jail as described in the jail man-page. I'm running these commands from a script: pw groupadd newgroup -g 1010 -V /path/to/jail/etc