From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 24 03:46:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA11604 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 03:46:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from seagull.rtd.com (root@seagull.rtd.com [198.102.68.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id DAA11597 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 03:46:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dgy@localhost) by seagull.rtd.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA06658; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 03:46:42 -0700 (MST) From: Don Yuniskis Message-Id: <199607241046.DAA06658@seagull.rtd.com> Subject: Re: cannot add users To: phace@eden.com (Tony Montana) Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 03:46:41 -0700 (MST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Tony Montana" at Jul 24, 96 05:00:30 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 assume you're running as root at the time? And, the permissions for /etc are OK? Does vipw allow you to manually change/add to the password database (or, does it blow up, too?)