Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 20:48:00 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> To: Scott Johnson <scott@dsuper.net> Cc: Russell Auld <rauld@grove.ufl.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, dec <tru64-unix-managers@ornl.gov> Subject: Re: NFS problems. Message-ID: <20000627204800.F424@dialin-client.earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <00bb01bfe0aa$2520c530$28d2d1d8@dsuper.net>; from scott@dsuper.net on Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 10:39:50PM -0400 References: <4.3.2.7.0.20000627213208.00acda80@grove.ufl.edu> <00bb01bfe0aa$2520c530$28d2d1d8@dsuper.net>
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On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 10:39:50PM -0400, Scott Johnson wrote: > Hi, > > To Make things a little clearer. I have an Alpha server with an FTP > server on it. Users directories are NFS mounted from a FreeBSD server. > Users ftping to the alpha and placing file in their use directories get a > USER ID of some huge number. I have created a test use by manualy add them > to the master.passwd file on the FreeBSD server and doing a chsh to have the > passwd files rebuild. But for some reason I didn't get an error. But when I > try and do a chown to the newly added usr's directory from the FreeBSD box > it gived me an "chown: donny: illegal user name" error. Oops. Answered the wrong one. Ooh, newlines too. Neat. Use vipw(8) to manually add users to the master.passwd file. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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