From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 13 09:56:35 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id JAA05708 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 13 Oct 1995 09:56:35 -0700 Received: from strider.ibenet.it (root@strider.ibe.net [194.179.130.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA05701 for ; Fri, 13 Oct 1995 09:56:10 -0700 Received: (from piero@localhost) by strider.ibenet.it (8.6.12/8.6.12) id RAA03939; Fri, 13 Oct 1995 17:55:19 +0100 From: Piero Serini Message-Id: <199510131655.RAA03939@strider.ibenet.it> Subject: Re: disappearing users To: andrew@andrew.tased.edu.au (Andrew) Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 17:55:18 +0100 (MET) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Andrew" at Oct 13, 95 04:44:22 pm Reply-To: piero@strider.ibenet.it Operating-System: FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 X-Phone-Number: +39 (2) 58113562 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 828 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hello. Quoting from Andrew (Fri Oct 13 17:44:22 1995): > Thanks for your help in the past...everything seems to be working except > for the occaision "crash" where the unix refuses connections telnet > connections and all the users dissappear (where their names should be (in > finger etc) there are numbers...usually 0 or 1001) and ~user paths stop > working. If you have any ideas it would be nice but.... You lost the 2 passwd databases (I hope you didn't lose the sources). As root, run "pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd" or use "vipw" and exit with ":wq". This will re-create the needed databases. Bye, -- # $Id: .signature,v 1.12 1995/08/14 12:10:54 piero Exp $ Piero Serini Via Giambologna, 1 I 20136 Milano - ITALY