Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 14:56:15 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: Richard Bradley <rtb27@cam.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: user account woes Message-ID: <20040706025615.GA1386@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <200407060255.47154.rtb27@cam.ac.uk> References: <200407060255.47154.rtb27@cam.ac.uk>
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On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 02:55:47AM +0100, Richard Bradley wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a phantom user stuck in my system that I can neither use nor delete. I
> have been playing with "Virtual Users" in "pure-ftpd" and it seems to have
> messed things around.
[...]
> If I delete the entry from /etc/passwd, the cycle starts again.
Use "vipw" to edit the file and it will work.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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