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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!news.ucdavis.edu!not-for-mail From: obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu (David E. O'Brien) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Newbie Near Death - Needs Help! Date: 7 Jan 1996 08:45:48 GMT Organization: University of California, Davis Lines: 15 Message-ID: <4co17s$mqf@mark.ucdavis.edu> References: <4cjo8e$dsk@claudia.surfsouth.com> <4cngho$6vu@services.computerland.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Rob Cima (rob@global-image.com) wrote: : : >One problem is that I can't SU to news or bin so that I can run Cnews files. : >I've edited groups, but when I login as root and su bin or su news I get the : >following message: su: /nonexistent: No such file or directory : >Any ideas to help with this problem? : : Sounds like you have news's default directory or shell set to : /nonexistent. Change them in /etc/passwd. Using ``vipw''. Actually you'd edit /etc/master.passwd and re-create /etc/passwd and the db files with pwd_db or something like that. ``vipw'' will do all this for you. -- David (obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu)