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( [68.35.151.186]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 31sm13622121wff.7.2008.02.17.06.11.27 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 17 Feb 2008 06:11:28 -0800 (PST) From: James To: Bill Moran In-Reply-To: <20080216120406.f4f80c07.wmoran@potentialtech.com> References: <000a01c87073$9da5fc30$d8f1f490$@net> <1203178935.6099.1.camel@pclmills> <20080216120406.f4f80c07.wmoran@potentialtech.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 07:11:29 -0700 Message-Id: <1203257489.5760.3.camel@pclmills> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Lubomir Matousek , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: (no subject) rmuser error X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: oscartheduck@gmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 14:11:30 -0000 On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 12:04 -0500, Bill Moran wrote: > James wrote: > > > > > > On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 09:11 +0100, Lubomir Matousek wrote: > > > Dear list, > > > > > > > > > > > > I have the following problem when using rmuser (freebsd 6.2) > > > > > > > > > > > > ---------- > > > > > > rmuser -v hana ^^^^ says hana > > > > > > Matching password entry: > > > > > > > > > > > > hana:*:1091:1092::0:0:/usr/home/hana:/usr/sbin/nologin ^^^^ says hana ^^^^^ says /usr/home/hana > > > > > > > > > > > > Is this the entry you wish to remove? yes Remove user's home directory > > > (/usr/home/hanka)? yes Removing crontab for (hana):. ^^^^^ Notice that the username has been changed -- there's a k inserted. The kernel error is "no such file or directory", which makes sense, as we have seen no references thus far to a directory named hanka. > > > > > > Removing at(1) jobs owned by (hana): 0 removed. > > > > > > Removing IPC mechanismsipcs: sysctlbyname: kern.ipc.shmmax: No such file or > > > directory > > > > > > ipcs: sysctlbyname: kern.ipc.shmmax: No such file or directory > > > > > > ipcs: sysctlbyname: kern.ipc.shmmax: No such file or directory . > > > > > > Terminating all processes owned by (hana): -KILL signal sent to 0 processes. > > > > > > Removing files owned by (hana) in /tmp: 0 removed. > > > > > > Removing files owned by (hana) in /var/tmp: 0 removed. > > > > > > Removing mail spool(s) for (hana): /var/mail/hana. > > > > > > Removing user (hana) (including home directory) from the system: Done. > > > > > > ----------- > > > > > > > > > > > > The problem started, when I accidentaly deleted /usr/home directory and I > > > had to create a new one. I checked /etc/password file and the direcory > > > existed before using rmuser. Can anybody help please? As I said, /etc/passwd is generated from /etc/master.passwd. So make sure there's no extra k in there. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Lubos > > > > > > Looks like the problem is that somewhere within there it's expected that > > the home directory isn't /usr/home/hana, it's /usr/home/hanka > > > > Have you checked /etc/master.passwd to make sure that there's no > > mis-entry in there? Or just try creating /usr/home/hanka and see if it > > works itself out. > > Personally, I'm unsure where the "problem" is. The only suspicious thing > I see is the inability to remove shared memory segments, which is a bit > strange but not wholly unexpected. Did you build a kernel without shared > memory? >