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From: Richard Heaton <rheaton@empac.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: adduser, rmuser & ftp broke?
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 12:54:13 -0700
Organization: Empac International
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Jeremy Malli wrote:
>
> 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?
Could be /etc/pwd.db and /etc/spwd.db . Try pwd_mkdb (man 8 pwd_mkdb) . The password files are actually
kept in database-format (for speed I think) .
Rich
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System Engineer,Program Manager
EMPAC International
Fremont,California
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