Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 17:28:38 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Rishi Chopra <rchopra@cal.berkeley.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ID says no such user, PW says already exists ?!?! Message-ID: <20031215232837.GJ17799@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <3FDE4273.2080404@cal.berkeley.edu> References: <3FDE4273.2080404@cal.berkeley.edu>
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In the last episode (Dec 15), Rishi Chopra said: > This is gonna sound crazy, but: I got my FreeBSD box up and running > and decided to add a user account for myself (avoid the perils of > working as root?) I added a named account 'rchopra' and everything > was honky-dorey. > > The following series of events occured and have left me confused and > unable to use or re-add the 'rchopra' account: > > 1) I manually added myself to the 'wheel' account, in order to allow > 'su' to root. Rather than using 'pw', I was under the impression > just editing the entry in '/etc/group' would work; my entry looked > like this: > > wheel:*:0:root:rchopra The userlist is comma-delimited: wheel:*:0:root,rchopra > 2) This action seemed to cause a problem; I attempted to login and su, > and I was not able to login successfully (my password would not work). > I attempted to run 'id rchopra' at the command prompt, which returns an > error: > > # id rchopra > 'id: rchopra: no such user' > > Strangely enough, the '/home/rchopra' directory still exists. > > 3) OK, no problem right? Just run 'adduser' and create the account > again... Unfortunately, after entering all the information for the user > account 'rchopra' the system says: > > pw: user 'rchopra' already exists > adduser: ERROR: There was an error adding user (rchopra) That's a little weird. Is there an 'rchopra' user when you run vipw? Messing with /etc/group shouldn't have affected your ability to log in. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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