From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 24 03:00:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA09982 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 03:00:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from natashya.eden.com (root@natashya.eden.com [199.171.21.14]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id DAA09971 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 03:00:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from matrix.eden.com (phace@matrix.T10.nfs.eden.com [206.81.225.193]) by natashya.eden.com (8.7.4.1/8.7.1.1) with SMTP id FAA25376 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 05:00:31 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 05:00:30 -0500 (CDT) From: Tony Montana To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: cannot add users Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk When attempting to execute the 'adduser' command as root on my FreeBSD R2.1 box i get the following: pwd_mkdb: /etc/master.passwd: Permission denied Invalid /etc/master.passwd - cannot add any users! The permissions are set correctly: -rw------- 1 root wheel 1018 Jul 24 03:33 master.passwd I've tried 'adduser -v' also and it doesn't give me any clues as to what the problem is. Also I've tried vipw and deleted all users and I've tried to sysinstall and change root passwd. All those efforts proved unsuccessful. And man pages on pwd_mkdb and passwd dont give any clues either. If you've got any ideas or clues on why this happened and how I could possibly fix this problem please reply. Any help or comments will be greatly appreciated. Tony