From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 14 07:05:58 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D7EE16A400 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 07:05:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from swhetzel@gmail.com) Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.243]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 155C913C43E for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 07:05:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from swhetzel@gmail.com) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id c24so82251ana for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 00:05:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=WK9e02rACz2o8soabfDUw7wcT4fnO8cWi4fwDEI6F1ywUXTkatfDYiB0vcD556Lmif3qBgVU43I/kFuXaaOoxbCbpTdFzCWYdSH5xB9rdraHwlfvRbiWRASS9ebu/1wbDcJyDj/9AD/1ROAwy75Jp4oZzn8wF5IRE0HaUSaGxxU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=oSFgx7+AvvU2cf+OL0QxbW/ycHOx6WakHBDP26JFNQ375kJbMgQLrM7CXA8lUflSnJFfqeSFCIXn4KKXmMXb+XvEG+M1Yxb/O2SI94T+80IUuiWUhq09OFu2B17ei9zAld5IU8xQTBu5KgtaTppN+/nWhTiarnbFrny+9G8glho= Received: by 10.100.163.12 with SMTP id l12mr1557651ane.1173855955834; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 00:05:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.141.14 with HTTP; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 00:05:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <790a9fff0703140005n39e0b6b1n8cb1942259339631@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 02:05:55 -0500 From: "Scot Hetzel" To: zen In-Reply-To: <790a9fff0703132354h4abd029ck337027da7e16b283@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <45F7916F.5090703@tk-pttuntex.com> <790a9fff0703132354h4abd029ck337027da7e16b283@mail.gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: adduser error X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 07:05:58 -0000 On 3/14/07, Scot Hetzel wrote: > On 3/14/07, zen wrote: > > dear users, > > i have problem with my fresh FreeBSD 6.2 RELEASE > > i can not adduser to this machine, the error logs was: > > > > ns1# pw adduser zen -g wheel -d /home/zen -s /bin/csh > > pwd_mkdb: corrupted entry > > pwd_mkdb: at line #12 > > pwd_mkdb: /etc/master.passwd: Inappropriate file type or format > > pw: user 'zen' disappeared during update > > ns1# pw adduser zen -g wheel -d /home/zen -s /bin/csh > > pwd_mkdb: corrupted entry > > pwd_mkdb: at line #12 > > pwd_mkdb: /etc/master.passwd: Inappropriate file type or format > > pw: user 'zen' disappeared during update > > > > please help regarding this problem > > > > You have a corrupt entry on line 12 of /etc/master.passwd. Open > /etc/maser.passwd using vipw. Then go to line 12, and make sure that > all the fields are there for line #12. > > name:passwd:uid:gid:class:change:expire:gecos:home_dir:shell > > daemon:*:1:1::0:0:Owner of many system processes:/root:/usr/sbin/nologin > NOTE: in version 1.40 of the master.passwd file the 12th line is: man:*:9:9::0:0:Mister Man Pages:/usr/share/man:/usr/sbin/nologin Scot -- DISCLAIMER: No electrons were mamed while sending this message. Only slightly bruised.