Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 02:55:47 +0100 From: Richard Bradley <rtb27@cam.ac.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: user account woes Message-ID: <200407060255.47154.rtb27@cam.ac.uk>
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Hi, I have a phantom user stuck in my system that I can neither use nor delete. I have been playing with "Virtual Users" in "pure-ftpd" and it seems to have messed things around. Substituting `bob` for the user name, here is some of my command line: # grep bob /etc/passwd /etc/pwd.db # pw add user lindalepark pw: user 'bob' already exists # grep lindale /etc/passwd /etc/pwd.db /etc/passwd:lindalepark:*:1003:1003:User &:/home/lindalepark:/bin/sh # pw del user bob pw: no such user `bob' If I delete the entry from /etc/passwd, the cycle starts again. Any hints? Rich
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