From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Aug 12 22:07:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA18223 for isp-outgoing; Mon, 12 Aug 1996 22:07:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from inetsrv.wtrt.net (inetsrv.wtrt.net [205.231.181.67]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA18216 for ; Mon, 12 Aug 1996 22:07:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from allenh (ppp15.wtrt.net [205.231.181.85]) by inetsrv.wtrt.net (8.7.5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id AAA05266 for ; Tue, 13 Aug 1996 00:08:11 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199608130508.AAA05266@inetsrv.wtrt.net> From: "Allen Hyer" To: Subject: adduser problem Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 00:06:25 -0500 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1132 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk First, let me thank everyone who responded to my previous posts. Now, I have a new problem. My FreeBSD box (2.1.5-RELEASE) has about 150 accounts set up. Recently, adduser has started replying an error message: chown: guest: illegal group name I have searched through the /etc/group file and everything looks ok to me. Another symptom, in the /home directory, on an ls -l, the output looks like this .... drwxr-xr-x 2 ruddent 31 512 Jun 26 14:54 ruddent/ drwxr-xr-x 2 sanders 31 512 Jul 16 15:50 sanders/ drwxr-xr-x 2 sharon 31 512 Jul 12 15:54 sharon/ drwxr-xr-x 2 shayroo 31 512 May 23 15:44 shayroo/ drwxr-xr-x 2 sjrtx 31 512 May 29 14:38 sjrtx/ .... I think it used to look like this: .... drwxr-xr-x 2 ruddent guest 512 Jun 26 14:54 ruddent/ drwxr-xr-x 2 sanders guest 512 Jul 16 15:50 sanders/ drwxr-xr-x 2 sharon guest 512 Jul 12 15:54 sharon/ drwxr-xr-x 2 shayroo guest 512 May 23 15:44 shayroo/ drwxr-xr-x 2 sjrtx guest 512 May 29 14:38 sjrtx/ .... so, instead of showing guest group ownership, ls -l shows 31. Any ideas? Thanks, Allen Hyer West Texas Rural Telephone