From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 11 19:05:41 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CECE16A4CE for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 19:05:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from mx03.cybersurf.com (mx03.cybersurf.com [209.197.145.106]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 318AF43D41 for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 19:05:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from plecavalier@cyberus.ca) Received: from mail.cyberus.ca ([209.197.145.21]) by mx03.cybersurf.com with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 1B1czS-0005Ox-So for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 22:05:38 -0500 Received: from moseisley.cyberus.ca ([209.195.118.5] helo=oss) by mail.cyberus.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 1B1TRx-0004Vb-O1 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 11:54:25 -0500 From: "Philippe LeCavalier" To: Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 11:51:42 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Thread-Index: AcQHiSDt9qwCAthJQcG0+TuC+9i33A== Message-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: user logon denied -no such user X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 03:05:41 -0000 Hello everyone, I recently began experiencing an issue with user accounts on my FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE file server. Any new user account I create fails authentication. The log entry shows 'no such user' but /etc/passwd has the appropriate entries. (used vipw to check). The only access the new user is granted is SSH. Any other program fails authentication. Proftpd, SAMBA.etc. Here is one of those log entries: Mar 4 16:03:07 telzar proftpd[68222]: telzar (IP_HERE[192.168.0.10]) - no such user 'USER_HERE' I'm also getting this in SAMBA's log. This may not be a related issue though: [2004/03/11 03:59:59, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection(599) arkain (192.168.0.12) Can't change directory to /tmp (Permission denied) I guess what I'm asking here is if someone can show me how to dig a little deeper into the FreeBSD authentication system so I can find out if a required file is missing/corrupt or has inherited the wrong permissions maybe. I dunno. Any guidance, comments or experiences with this kind of problem would be greatly appreciated. Cheers, Phil