From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 28 12:17:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA04761 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 12:17:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason05.u.washington.edu (jason05.u.washington.edu [140.142.78.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA04756 for ; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 12:17:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul7.u.washington.edu (root@saul7.u.washington.edu [140.142.82.2]) by jason05.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id MAA50170; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 12:16:56 -0700 Received: from s8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul7.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with SMTP id MAA15708; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 12:16:56 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 12:12:38 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu To: Brendan Kosowski cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: vipw problem In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Brendan Kosowski wrote: >I recently removed a user via vipw and then added them back later. > >Now they can't use any commands that relly on shared libraries. > >They also can't do a "who", it sais something like utmp premission denied >or something like that. > >I'm having a bad day, can anyone help ???? Did you add them back using adduser or vipw? Try adding an arbitrary user using adduser and see if that user works. If it does, then you probably messed up the syntax of /etc/passwd when using vipw. Did you mess with the users group membership? Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message