From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Apr 21 8:59:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from darius.concentric.net (darius.concentric.net [207.155.198.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E51D437BA7F for ; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 08:59:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mlduke@concentric.net) Received: from newman.concentric.net (newman.concentric.net [207.155.198.71]) by darius.concentric.net (8.9.1a/(98/12/15 5.12)) id LAA16527; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 11:59:52 -0400 (EDT) [1-800-745-2747 The Concentric Network] Received: from ts004d13.mer-id.concentric.net (ts004d13.mer-id.concentric.net [206.173.184.169]) by newman.concentric.net (8.9.1a) id LAA17100; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 11:59:49 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 07:57:20 -0600 (MDT) From: mlduke To: Stephane THAO Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: users and passwords In-Reply-To: <38FFB17E.BCBAC1E9@usa.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Hi, > I've recently been assigned administration of a freebsd server which > hosts a website. > unfortunately the user lisd is quite a mess and I'd like to create new > user and delete most of the old ones. > but when I type "adduser" I get the reply "Command not found" (I'm > logged as root). You might try: /usr/sbin/adduser Which would do the job if you are running 3.2 If it doesn't you might try: locate adduser And see where that particular binary is located, then cd there and try: ./adduser If that works, you don't have the path to adduser in your defined path. ML Duke > I can not change passwords either as it says "passwd: error opening > database: /etc/pwd.db." > vipw is not found and the man pages haven't been installed! > > I would really appreciate any help you could provide. > > Regards, > S.THAO > -- > ------------------------------------------------ > Stephane THAO s.thao@usa.net > Information Systems Dept. > > French Embassy Work +82 231 232 72 > 30, Hap-Dong, Sodaemun-Ku, > CPO Box 1808 - SEOUL > SOUTH KOREA > ------------------------------------------------ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message