From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 19 6:16:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tomts20-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts20.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C98BA37B403 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 06:16:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca ([65.93.39.114]) by tomts20-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.16 201-229-121-116-20010115) with ESMTP id <20011019131611.PBBZ14703.tomts20-srv.bellnexxia.net@xena.gsicomp.on.ca>; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 09:16:11 -0400 Received: from hermes (hermes.gsicomp.on.ca [192.168.0.18]) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f9JD7xW27413; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 09:07:59 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <008c01c158a0$8e6f6040$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: "dayo" , References: <000e01c1587a$99994e20$8100a8c0@nigol.net.ng> Subject: Re: unable to add users Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 09:18:34 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 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 Check fhe contents of /etc/master.passwd. It should be exactly the same as /etc/passwd except that there are passwords in the second field instead of asterisks. Also, check to make sure that root line looks like this: root:*:0:0:Charlie &:/root:/bin/sh If there are not zeros in the 3rd or 4th field, than someone has been mucking with your system, and you've probably been hacked. -- Matt Emmerton ----- Original Message ----- From: "dayo" To: Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 4:46 AM Subject: unable to add users Hi there, I have FreeBSD running on our mail server. But for few days now, I was unable to add more users to the server anytime I use the "adduser" command. The message I always received is "pwd_mkdb:root uid should be 0 pwd_mkdb:at line #337 pwd_mkdb:/etc/master.passwd:Inappropriate file type or format Kindly let me know how I can resolve this problem. You can reach me through this email address dogunso@igi-insurers.com or emmanuayo@yahoo.com. Thanks Dayo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message