Date: Sun, 2 May 1999 17:48:49 -0700 From: "David Anderson" <DRCAnderson@xtra.co.nz> To: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re:Help Please - Newbie Adding User Message-ID: <002101be94fe$f379c380$a12dfea9@DavidAnderson>
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Hi Ok I have learnt from postings addressing my little problem that I should use a more specific subject line (eg # adduser fails). I have set my mailer to plain text, but it seems like I cant turn the wrapping off - so set for 70 chars width. I am using version 3.1 FreeBSD (Walnut creek CDS). I have searched man pages, Greg Lehey's book, various archives and online docs and have of course followed advice kindly given from all you olks. Problem ========= myname# adduser > i get the following error report......... > pwd_mkdb:root uid should be 0 > pwd_mkdb: at line 16 > pwd_mkdb: /etc/master.pwd: Inappropriate file type or format. > > (ii) Alternatively using vipw > pwd_mkdb:root uid should be 0 > pwd_mkdb: at line 16 > pwd_mkdb: /etc/master.pwd: Inappropriate file type or format. > re-edit the password file? [y] I can see from vipw that I do have indeed 2 references to root in the file. >root:encrypted_password:0:0::0:0:Charlie &:/root:/bin/csh >.... >root::10:10:root:0:0:root:/home/root:/bin/sh so I attempt to remove the second one (that has uid set to 10) and I get >/etc/pw.0kb345 16 lines, 884 chars >vipw: rebuilding the data base........ >Write failed file system is full. >/kernel: pid 350 (pwd_mkdb), vid 0 on /:file system full. Wow...I check and find root (I'm logged in as) quota is unlimited. My #dmesg shows >Real memory = 8388608(8192k bytes) >avail mem = 5230592(5184 bytes) ls -s /etc gives >total 377 My pwd.db is 40 kilobytes, as is the spwd.db - I notice that everytime I attempt to save the changes using vipw (a) Leave Editor - Save Changes) the pw.x file is different. Ok this is a data base file and its existence is part of a security system (using hash tables according to docs). My questions are (i) Am I creating a copy of this particular file everytime I try to edit it? (ii) Have I exceeded some sort of limit? (iii)How can I sort this problem out? Any help would be much appreciated. -Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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