From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 30 09:34:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA15586 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 30 Jul 1996 09:34:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (root@orion.webspan.net [206.154.70.41]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA15580 for ; Tue, 30 Jul 1996 09:34:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (scanner@orion.webspan.net [206.154.70.41]) by orion.webspan.net (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id MAA18203; Tue, 30 Jul 1996 12:34:28 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 12:34:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Scanner To: Charlie ROOT cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/group In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 30 Jul 1996, Charlie ROOT wrote: > I am having a problem with groups in FreeBSD. I have a group 'user' and > i seem to have broke it. I think itsbecause the line buffer in > /etc/group cannot exceed 1024 characters. > > So i tried adding a new group called 'user' also, with different GID but > i get an error when i run the adduser script along wiht other errors. Have you tried going into /etc/groups and DELETING the users after users:*:1001:john1, john2 etc.. delete the users john1, john2 etc.. sicne they are already added they dont neeed to be in the groups file sicne they already have the GID of users in the password file. So delete the users in the groups file and your set and good to go. Chris -- ===================================| Webspan Inc., ISP Division. FreeBSD 2.1.5 is available now! | Phone: 908-367-8030 ext. 126 -----------------------------------| 500 West Kennedy Blvd., Lakewood, NJ-08701 Turning PCs into Workstations | E-Mail: scanner@webspan.net http://www.freebsd.org | SysAdmin / Network Engineer / Security ===================================| Member BSDNET team! http://www.bsdnet.org