Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 17:31:30 -0500 From: "matt ." <fasterdisco@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Fun with passwd files Message-ID: <a97e11c20511261431h78f26461i69c51028d157e021@mail.gmail.com>
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Hey folks, I wonder if anybody can help me out here... FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE I'm doing a user migration. I'm manually populating the /etc/master.passwd with user entries from the old box. I run pwd_mkdb on the master.passwdfile. This was working dandy until a few moments ago. I added a user, then attempted to delete the user using "pw userdel <username>" and I get this: host# pw userdel jschneider pw: user 'jschneider' does not exist: No such file or directory This was weird. I can usermod, usershow and finger "jschneider" just fine. When I change jschneider's password using passwd, magically I am now able t= o delete him using "pw userdel". I found out jschneider was being added to /etc/master.passwd but not into /etc/passwd. However previous users I had manually added using the same method did end up in the /etc/passwd file. So I'm confused. Now it seems any user I manually add to master.passwd and run pwd_mkdb on, doesn't get populated into /etc/passwd. Any clue what's going on here? kind regards, matt
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