From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 13 00:19:16 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4E0B106566B for ; Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:19:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from asmtpout015.mac.com (asmtpout015.mac.com [17.148.16.90]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91CD78FC27 for ; Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:19:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Received: from cswiger1.apple.com ([17.227.140.124]) by asmtp015.mac.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-7.03 (built Aug 7 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTPSA id <0KEZ00AFOA83HE10@asmtp015.mac.com> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:19:16 -0800 (PST) Message-id: <9391FD2D-59ED-455A-8C87-2854C7EF1E52@mac.com> From: Chuck Swiger To: John Almberg In-reply-to: <325E4EC8-BD2B-45C1-978C-4922D16D3A94@identry.com> Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:19:15 -0800 References: <325E4EC8-BD2B-45C1-978C-4922D16D3A94@identry.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.930.3) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Old user can't log in X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:19:17 -0000 On Feb 12, 2009, at 3:14 PM, John Almberg wrote: > Just ran into a strange problem... I have a long-standing user > account on my FreeBSD box that no longer works. She can't ssh into > the box, and I can't even su to her account. > > $ su jessica > Password: > su: setusercontext: Invalid argument Does group 1022 exist in /etc/groups? Is the user a member of more than 16 groups? -- -Chuck