Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 10:50:45 -0700 From: "David Anderson" <DRCAnderson@xtra.co.nz> To: "Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Help Please - Newbie Adding User Message-ID: <047f01be8f44$3c937f40$9ac4fea9@dynasite98>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Hi I have logged on as root and are attempting to add myself as a user with csh shell. (i) When I try the adding user via myname# adduser i get the following error report......... pwd_mkdb:root uid should be 0 pwd_mkdb: at line 16 pwd_mkdb: /etc/master.pwd: Inappropriate file type or format. (ii) Alternatively using vipw pwd_mkdb:root uid should be 0 pwd_mkdb: at line 16 pwd_mkdb: /etc/master.pwd: Inappropriate file type or format. re-edit the password file? [y] Please can somebody tell me what is happening here? Thanks for any help offered. David Anderson [-- Attachment #2 --] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META content=text/html;charset=iso-8859-1 http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content='"MSHTML 4.72.3110.7"' name=GENERATOR> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2><FONT size=3>Hi</FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV>I have logged on as root and are attempting to add myself as a user with csh shell.</DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2><FONT size=3></FONT></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2><FONT size=3></FONT></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2><FONT size=3>(i) When I try the adding user via </FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2><FONT size=3><STRONG>myname# adduser </STRONG></FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2><FONT size=3></FONT></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2><FONT size=3>i get the following error report.........</FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2><FONT size=3></FONT></FONT><STRONG>pwd_mkdb:root uid should be 0</STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG>pwd_mkdb: at line 16</STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG>pwd_mkdb: /etc/master.pwd: Inappropriate file type or format.</STRONG></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2><FONT size=3></FONT></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2><FONT size=3>(ii) Alternatively using <STRONG>vipw </STRONG></FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2><FONT size=3><STRONG> <DIV><STRONG>pwd_mkdb:root uid should be 0</STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG>pwd_mkdb: at line 16</STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG>pwd_mkdb: /etc/master.pwd: Inappropriate file type or format.</STRONG></DIV> <DIV>re-edit the password file? [y]</DIV> <DIV> </DIV></STRONG> <DIV>Please can somebody tell me what is happening here? </DIV> <DIV>Thanks for any help offered.</DIV> <DIV>David Anderson</DIV></FONT></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>
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