From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 13 22:13:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA27115 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 22:13:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason04.u.washington.edu (jason04.u.washington.edu [140.142.78.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA27104 for ; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 22:13:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul9.u.washington.edu (root@saul9.u.washington.edu [140.142.82.7]) by jason04.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id WAA20074; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 22:12:45 -0700 Received: from S8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul9.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with SMTP id WAA09770; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 22:12:44 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 05:12:47 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells" To: Ghulum Dastgir cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: usr logon problems In-Reply-To: <5060100023352447000002L072*@MHS> 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 Sun, 13 Sep 1998, Ghulum Dastgir wrote: >hi, > >i've added a user to /etc/master.passwd and added a password, but i can't logon >as this user, it says "/home not found". >i've confirmed that the second to last field in master.passwd for this user is >of the form " /home/'username' ". Two things. Add users with the 'adduser' command and never edit passwd files with out using 'vipw'. The passwords in /etc/master.passwd are not clear text but are ciphertext. Manually adding a password in /etc/master.passwd does you no good. One should always use 'passwd' to change a users password after the user is already created. Of course, you don't _really_ need to take my advice if you know all of the little ins and outs of adding a user and changind passwords. There are harder ways to do these things. :) 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