From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 3 23:13:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DD6537B429 for ; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 23:12:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA01081; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 23:12:34 -0800 Message-ID: <3CABFCE2.5040200@owt.com> Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 23:12:34 -0800 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, es-mx MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pjklist@ekahuna.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installworld/buildworld issues, and non-root user References: <20020404005514052.AAA153@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Philip J. Koenig wrote: > I went to update a 4.3-STABLE box to 4.5-STABLE. Things seemed to go > OK for cvsup (after cvsup version upgrade), buildworld, buildkernel, > installkernel. When I went to installworld (in single-user mode), I > got a stop in /usr/src, there was a complaint about a permission > problem (expected 755, got 700, or vice-versa), and a complaint that > "user sewss doesn't exist". (I may have the exact spelling wrong, > this is from memory) > > I looked in the referenced file (I think it was BSD.include.dist) and > it indeed specified this weird username. > > So my first question is what is going on here, and my second question > is that in the course of looking at this I discovered that neither > /usr/src or /usr/obj are flagged as writable by the 'wheel' group, > but I was certain I was able in the past to buildworld/buildkernel by > a regular user (member of the 'wheel' group) and not root. Was I > dreaming? You are asking the wrong list. This question has been answered perhaps as often as several times a day for some time now. You have to add the users smmsp:*:25: mailnull:*:26: To both /etc/group and /etc/passwd. I didn't include the passwd entry because it wraps. Check the -stable archive for exact passwd entries. The are also probably in /usr/src/etc/master.passwd Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message