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 sysctl

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.

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 by

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 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

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 the

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

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