From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 21 23:48:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B57D637B6C6 for ; Sun, 21 May 2000 23:48:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (doug@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA19374; Sun, 21 May 2000 23:48:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Message-ID: <3928D82F.790A5850@gorean.org> Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 23:48:15 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT-0508 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kirk McDonald Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: master.password problem References: <392889BB.9919C098@optusnet.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kirk McDonald wrote: > > Can somebody help me out with this problem please? > > su-2.03# adduser > Use option ``-silent'' if you don't want to see all warnings and > questions. > > pwd_mkdb: line too long > pwd_mkdb: /etc/master.passwd: Inappropriate file type or format > > Invalid /etc/master.passwd - cannot add any users! You have to find the bad line in master.passwd and fix it. Compare the lines you've added to the ones already in the file, and try to figure out how they are different. Use 'pwd_mkdb -C /etc/master.passwd' to figure out if you've fixed it or not. Good luck, Doug -- "Live free or die" - State motto of my ancestral homeland, New Hampshire Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message