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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-200.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-11.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-3.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-fw-22.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-fw-12.sprintlink.net!news.tcd.net!jeremy From: jeremy@vcn.com (Jeremy Malli) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: adduser, rmuser & ftp broke? Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 22:34:36 -0600 Organization: Visionary Communications Lines: 14 Message-ID: <jeremy-1307962234360001@news.tcd.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: quantum.vcn.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: Yet Another NewsWatcher 2.2.0b13 I recently installed a new hard drive on my primary that, for the most part, went pretty well. I started with a fresh install of the system (BSD/OS 2.1), then applied all the current patches and then copied the user specific files (master.passwd, passwd, /usr/home/*, etc...) onto the new hard drive from the old one. The problem is, every time I attempt to run adduser or rmuser I get an immediate core dump. When I try to upload files using FTP it tells me: 553 Could not determine cwdir: Permission denied. I'm pretty sure the two are related in that it surely must be one file missing, corrupted, permissions incorrect, etc, but I don't have a clue as to what file that could possibly be. I've run the security script and COPS to see if they could locate any files with permissions set incorrectly, but they turned up nothing. I have a hunch it may be in the /dev directory, but I could be completely off base. Anyone have an idea what file I could be missing?