Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 13:44:29 GMT From: xiyuan qian <xiyuan@npc.haplink.co.cn> To: allenh@wtrt.net, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: adduser problem Message-ID: <199608131344.NAA02386@npc.haplink.co.cn>
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> 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? > Hi, I had met the same problem. When I made another group named guest1 and moved some users to guest1, all went ok. Why? Is there a max user account number? --xiyuan
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