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Date:      Tue, 27 Jun 2000 20:48:00 -0700
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net>
To:        Scott Johnson <scott@dsuper.net>
Cc:        Russell Auld <rauld@grove.ufl.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, dec <tru64-unix-managers@ornl.gov>
Subject:   Re: NFS problems.
Message-ID:  <20000627204800.F424@dialin-client.earthlink.net>
In-Reply-To: <00bb01bfe0aa$2520c530$28d2d1d8@dsuper.net>; from scott@dsuper.net on Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 10:39:50PM -0400
References:  <4.3.2.7.0.20000627213208.00acda80@grove.ufl.edu> <00bb01bfe0aa$2520c530$28d2d1d8@dsuper.net>

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On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 10:39:50PM -0400, Scott Johnson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>     To Make things a little clearer. I have an Alpha server with an FTP
> server on it.  Users directories are NFS mounted from a FreeBSD server.
> Users ftping to the alpha and placing file in their use directories get a
> USER ID of some huge number. I have created a test use by manualy add them
> to the master.passwd file on the FreeBSD server and doing a chsh to have the
> passwd files rebuild. But for some reason I didn't get an error. But when I
> try and do a chown to the newly added usr's directory from the FreeBSD box
> it gived me an "chown: donny: illegal user name" error.

Oops. Answered the wrong one. Ooh, newlines too. Neat.

Use vipw(8) to manually add users to the master.passwd file.
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.edu


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