Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 05:12:47 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> To: Ghulum Dastgir <Ghulam_Dastgir@uk.ibm.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: usr logon problems Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809140508090.4174-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <5060100023352447000002L072*@MHS>
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On Sun, 13 Sep 1998, Ghulum Dastgir wrote: >hi, > >i've added a user to /etc/master.passwd and added a password, but i can't logon >as this user, it says "/home not found". >i've confirmed that the second to last field in master.passwd for this user is >of the form " /home/'username' ". Two things. Add users with the 'adduser' command and never edit passwd files with out using 'vipw'. The passwords in /etc/master.passwd are not clear text but are ciphertext. Manually adding a password in /etc/master.passwd does you no good. One should always use 'passwd' to change a users password after the user is already created. Of course, you don't _really_ need to take my advice if you know all of the little ins and outs of adding a user and changind passwords. There are harder ways to do these things. :) Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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