From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 27 20:49:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from emu.prod.itd.earthlink.net (emu.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.121.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D34037C550 for ; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 20:49:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@earthlink.net) Received: from dialin-client.earthlink.net (pool1367.cvx20-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net [209.179.255.92]) by emu.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3-EL_1_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA21128; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 20:49:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by dialin-client.earthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA00767; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 20:48:01 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 20:48:00 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Scott Johnson Cc: Russell Auld , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, dec Subject: Re: NFS problems. Message-ID: <20000627204800.F424@dialin-client.earthlink.net> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <4.3.2.7.0.20000627213208.00acda80@grove.ufl.edu> <00bb01bfe0aa$2520c530$28d2d1d8@dsuper.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <00bb01bfe0aa$2520c530$28d2d1d8@dsuper.net>; from scott@dsuper.net on Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 10:39:50PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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