From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 6 02:56:17 2004 Return-Path: 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 19B2516A4CE for ; Tue, 6 Jul 2004 02:56:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: from chen.org.nz (chen.org.nz [210.54.19.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D396843D3F for ; Tue, 6 Jul 2004 02:56:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: by chen.org.nz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 55C701361E; Tue, 6 Jul 2004 14:56:15 +1200 (NZST) Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 14:56:15 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: Richard Bradley Message-ID: <20040706025615.GA1386@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <200407060255.47154.rtb27@cam.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200407060255.47154.rtb27@cam.ac.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: user account woes X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 02:56:17 -0000 On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 02:55:47AM +0100, Richard Bradley wrote: > 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. [...] > If I delete the entry from /etc/passwd, the cycle starts again. Use "vipw" to edit the file and it will work. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Internet: an empirical test of the idea that a million monkeys banging on a million keyboards can produce Shakespeare