Re: passwd: /sbin/nologin --- not working for me

2005-10-24 Thread morla
thank u all, (this comes a little late, sorry i had no internet con.) i seem to have totally forgotten about the passwd-db. YES i have edited them all with vi i removed my entrys and did them again with vipw. now all works very fine :) thx morla

passwd: /sbin/nologin --- not working for me

2005-10-21 Thread morla
hello all, i just made up a second account on my box and wanted to prevent the old one from loging into it, due i want to keep it for email retrival. when i enter something like morla:*:1000:1000:morla:/home/morla:/sbin/nologin into /etc/passwd and a similary entry into /etc/master.passwd

Re: passwd: /sbin/nologin --- not working for me

2005-10-21 Thread Huzeyfe ONAL
Hi, #pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd to generate the new password database and try again. morla wrote: hello all, i just made up a second account on my box and wanted to prevent the old one from loging into it, due i want to keep it for email retrival. when i enter something like

Re: passwd: /sbin/nologin --- not working for me

2005-10-21 Thread steven mestdagh
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 07:53:52AM +0200, morla wrote: hello all, i just made up a second account on my box and wanted to prevent the old one from loging into it, due i want to keep it for email retrival. when i enter something like morla:*:1000:1000:morla:/home/morla:/sbin/nologin

Re: passwd: /sbin/nologin --- not working for me

2005-10-21 Thread Marcus Popp
On 2005-10-21T07:53, morla wrote: hello all, i just made up a second account on my box and wanted to prevent the old one from loging into it, due i want to keep it for email retrival. when i enter something like morla:*:1000:1000:morla:/home/morla:/sbin/nologin into /etc/passwd and

Re: passwd: /sbin/nologin --- not working for me

2005-10-21 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, morla wrote: hello all, i just made up a second account on my box and wanted to prevent the old one from loging into it, due i want to keep it for email retrival. when i enter something like morla:*:1000:1000:morla:/home/morla:/sbin/nologin into /etc/passwd and

Re: passwd: /sbin/nologin --- not working for me

2005-10-21 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 07:53:52AM +0200, morla said that i just made up a second account on my box and wanted to prevent the old one from loging into it, due i want to keep it for email retrival. i am not 100% sure what retrival means, but if you want to keep the account only for

Re: passwd: /sbin/nologin --- not working for me

2005-10-21 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
You said you entered into those files. Did you vi(1) them mnaually? Did you rebuild the database afterward? When you finger the user, what does the shell show up as? Use either vipw(8) as root, to do this, or use chfn(1) as the user. ~BAS On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, morla wrote: hello all, i