Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 13:55:52 -0400 From: "Jud" <jud@myrealbox.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: How to Regain 'Lost' User? Message-ID: <1051552552.73f8f180jud@myrealbox.com>
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Was puttering along changing shells from sh to zsh for root and user, using chpass -s. This went off without a hitch for root. Then unaccountably (typo?), when trying the same for user, I received a response that the user was unknown. When I try to create a new user with pw, I'm told a user with this name already exists. When I try to delete the user, I'm told there is no such user. Same with sysinstall - gave an error (74) when I tried to (re)create the user. I've also attempted to delete the relevant entries from the passwd, master.passwd and group files. After those deletions, trying to add a user with sysinstall or pw results in an error message about user being dropped or lost during the operation (sorry, can't remember the exact wording as I sit here on lunch break). So rather than continuing to flail about, where should I look for information about what to do? Thanks, Jud
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