From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 7 13:11:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtppop1pub.verizon.net (smtppop1pub.gte.net [206.46.170.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25D7637B479 for ; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 13:11:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from Ath (cable7-023.gte.net [24.96.36.23]) by smtppop1pub.verizon.net with SMTP for ; id PAA20163436 Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:06:49 -0600 (CST) From: "John Bolster" To: Subject: problem with passwords file Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 16:12:11 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On FreeBSD 4.1 I tried to run adduser on root to try and get rid of the 'Charlie &' and now adduser says: pwd:mkdb: root uid should be 0 pwd:mkdb: at line #20 pwd:mkdb: /etc/pw.gXb228: Inappropriate file type or format and it refuses to let me change root password or add any users. Everything else is still working OK- I can log in just fine. Does you know what I can do to fix or rebuild whatever has been damaged? (and what I shouldn't do again?) Thanks in advance, John Bolster To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message