Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 09:35:13 -0700 From: Gordon Tetlow <gordon@tetlows.org> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=F6vesd=E1n_G=E1bor?= <gabor.kovesdan@t-hosting.hu> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-bugs@t-hosting.hu Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.3 forgets some of my users Message-ID: <4295FAC1.80203@tetlows.org> In-Reply-To: <428FA04F.7060708@t-hosting.hu> References: <428FA04F.7060708@t-hosting.hu>
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Kövesdán Gábor wrote: > Hello there, > > there is a strange thing.... FreeBSD 5.3 randomly frogets some of my > users. Sometimes I see in the first column of the ps aux output the > uid number instead of the login name, but next when I run it, there is > the login name. Besides, I tried to chown a directory to an existing > user, but the I get an error message, that there wasn't such user. > I immediately checked passwd, group and master.passwd files in /etc > but the entry for that user was present there. The pw userdel was > unable to delete that user, so I had to manually remove it from those > three files and create it again. It worked then, but a bit later there > was the same result. I'm quite annoyed now. This state isn't safe > enough, I have to do something to get around with this. Do You have > similar experiences? Or do You now some kinda workaround? Don't edit the /etc/passwd and /etc/master.passwd files directly, you get into a lot of trouble. Use vipw or the pw command. Also, please don't crosspost between current and stable. Please post to whichever branch your machine is following. -gordon
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