Fun with passwd files
Hey folks, I wonder if anybody can help me out here... FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE I'm doing a user migration. I'm manually populating the /etc/master.passwd with user entries from the old box. I run pwd_mkdb on the master.passwdfile. This was working dandy until a few moments ago. I added a user, then attempted to delete the user using pw userdel username and I get this: host# pw userdel jschneider pw: user 'jschneider' does not exist: No such file or directory This was weird. I can usermod, usershow and finger jschneider just fine. When I change jschneider's password using passwd, magically I am now able to delete him using pw userdel. I found out jschneider was being added to /etc/master.passwd but not into /etc/passwd. However previous users I had manually added using the same method did end up in the /etc/passwd file. So I'm confused. Now it seems any user I manually add to master.passwd and run pwd_mkdb on, doesn't get populated into /etc/passwd. Any clue what's going on here? kind regards, matt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fun with passwd files
Ah-haseems if I do anything to update the /etc/passwd file, it'll populate with the latest /etc/master.passwd entries...for example I just updated the default shell for a different users, and voila, I see good ol' jschneider added to the /etc/passwd file now. So, I was likley only seeing previous users in there because I was randomly updating other user attributes. The question now is this...I see a switch for pwd_mkdb which is -p, meaning generate a /etc/passwd file. Going forward, when manually adding a new user to /etc/master.passwd, am I now to issue pwd_mkdb -p file to properly update /etc/passwd at the same time? Seems to me this is the thing to do, however it's my first time really messing with this sort of thing... matt On 11/26/05, matt . [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey folks, I wonder if anybody can help me out here... FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE I'm doing a user migration. I'm manually populating the /etc/master.passwd with user entries from the old box. I run pwd_mkdb on the master.passwd file. This was working dandy until a few moments ago. I added a user, then attempted to delete the user using pw userdel username and I get this: host# pw userdel jschneider pw: user 'jschneider' does not exist: No such file or directory This was weird. I can usermod, usershow and finger jschneider just fine. When I change jschneider's password using passwd, magically I am now able to delete him using pw userdel. I found out jschneider was being added to /etc/master.passwd but not into /etc/passwd. However previous users I had manually added using the same method did end up in the /etc/passwd file. So I'm confused. Now it seems any user I manually add to master.passwd and run pwd_mkdb on, doesn't get populated into /etc/passwd. Any clue what's going on here? kind regards, matt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fun with passwd files
matt . wrote: [ ... ] The question now is this...I see a switch for pwd_mkdb which is -p, meaning generate a /etc/passwd file. Going forward, when manually adding a new user to /etc/master.passwd, am I now to issue pwd_mkdb -p file to properly update /etc/passwd at the same time? Seems to me this is the thing to do, however it's my first time really messing with this sort of thing... Set $EDITOR properly, and run vipw. That program will let you edit the password file and then update the other system-specific password databases correctly. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
