From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 30 13:51:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA19192 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 13:51:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from xcf.berkeley.edu (scam.XCF.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.43.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA19149 for ; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 13:51:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nordwick@xcf.berkeley.edu) Received: (qmail 26513 invoked by uid 27268); 30 Apr 1998 20:52:33 -0000 Date: 30 Apr 1998 20:52:33 -0000 Message-ID: <19980430205233.26512.qmail@xcf.berkeley.edu> From: Jason Nordwick MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: TMM@infothuis.nl Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: adduser 'errors' In-Reply-To: TMM@infothuis.nl on 4/30/1998 to freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG <3548D0D1.FF7CB71@infothuis.nl> References: <3548D0D1.FF7CB71@infothuis.nl> X-Mailer: VM 6.32 under Emacs 19.34.1 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The Mad Maniac, on Thu 4/30/1998, wrote the following: > > [FreeBSD 2.2.2 **Newby Allert**] > > Hello, > > i just thought i would add a few users to my system, but when i start > 'adduser' this is what it tells me: > > check /etc/shells > check /etc/master.passwd > user deamon: illegal shell: ``/nonexistent'' > user games: illegal shell: ``/nonexistent'' > user man: illegal shell: ``/nonexistent'' > check /etc/group > > and then i need to do a lot of stuff. > > Can someone tell me how this could have happened (didn't do this before) > and how to fix it ? > > add /nonexistent to /etc/shells ? (I am kinda new too). echo /nonexistent >> /etc/shells ??? jay To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message