Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 18:48:25 -0500 From: "Anthony M. Agelastos" <iqgrande@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: _dhcp user problems Message-ID: <4E75A276-3D18-47D2-ADB4-96B85B182843@gmail.com>
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Hello all, During the upgrade to 6.0, I may have created the user _dhcp incorrectly. I was made aware of the problem when I noticed the message during boot: Setting hostname: ast.home.iq. rl0: link state changed to DOWN rl0: no link ....rl0: link state changed to UP got link no such user: _dhcp, falling back to nobody DHCPREQUEST on rl0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 DHCPACK from 192.168.0.1 bound to 192.168.0.4 -- renewal in 129600 seconds. So, as root, I tried to create them and delete them. This is proving unsuccessful. See below. ast# pw userdel _dhcp pw: no such user `_dhcp' ast# pw useradd _dhcp -u 65 -c "dhcp programs" -d /var/empty -s /usr/ sbin/nologin pw: user '_dhcp' already exists Are there any recommendations? I am running FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE. Some additional information is below. Thank you so much for your assistance. I checked the mailing list as well as Google and did not find a fix for this particular problem. I found someone mentioning that the database may need to be rebuilt (however I have no idea how to do this). ast# cat master.passwd | grep dhcp _dhcp:*:65:65::0:0:dhcp programs:/var/empty:/usr/sbin/nologin ast# cat passwd | grep dhcp _dhcp:*:65:65:dhcp programs:/var/empty:/usr/sbin/nologin ast# cat group | grep dhcp _dhcp:*:65: ast# uname -a FreeBSD ast.home.iq 6.0-STABLE FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE #0: Sat Nov 5 21:29:34 EST 2005 root@ast.home.iq:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/IQKERNEL i386
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