From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 27 23:48:29 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA5FC16A41F for ; Sun, 27 Nov 2005 23:48:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from iqgrande@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CBF543D5D for ; Sun, 27 Nov 2005 23:48:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from iqgrande@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 9so1046527nzo for ; Sun, 27 Nov 2005 15:48:28 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:message-id:content-type:to:from:subject:date:x-mailer; b=KBI5pqvNtgRd+KvntjUj8ieaJuuGE2iaAe4HY6OaZyfKsg/+6S0tAY3evt77s+AvW8mAyeVEDajc0L9/rlgIO5DvTO+fyYTLLFUupBEUbbtRT9gDIcaI8QixRYoYSUQZBydya4QcqS419Ymn2tTSS6jUqKSP1p4/5pPT4vdkwRY= Received: by 10.36.50.14 with SMTP id x14mr2831319nzx; Sun, 27 Nov 2005 15:48:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.0.2? ( [24.98.225.185]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 19sm1231812nzp.2005.11.27.15.48.28; Sun, 27 Nov 2005 15:48:28 -0800 (PST) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <4E75A276-3D18-47D2-ADB4-96B85B182843@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: "Anthony M. Agelastos" Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 18:48:25 -0500 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) Subject: _dhcp user problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 23:48:30 -0000 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