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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!news.iij.ad.jp!news.CET.CO.JP!usenet From: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: /etc/passwd, /etc/master.passwd.... what ELSE? Date: Sun, 03 Mar 1996 13:18:51 +0900 Organization: CET Lines: 18 Message-ID: <31391DAB.33AC@cet.co.jp> References: <4h7ehg$35m@client1.news.psi.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: a08m.cet.co.jp Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win95; I) Joel M. Hoffman wrote: > > I'm used to Linux, not BSDI, so please forgive what's probably an > idiotic question. I've added a dummy user to /etc/passwd and > /etc/master.passwd, but I still can't chown files to that user except > by numeric id, and when I use the numeric id, "ls" doesn't find the > user. What have I missed? > > Thanks. > > -Joel > (joel@exc.com) 1. Apply all the patches from ftp.bsdi.com. 2. Use 'adduser' and 'vipw' when managing users on BSD/OS. -mh