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From: eguerrer@Bayou.UH.EDU (erick guerrero)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: cannot addusers
Date: 24 Jul 1996 07:55:03 GMT
Organization: University of Houston
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whenever i try to addusers with the adduser command i get this:
pwd_mkdb: /etc/master.passwd: Permission denied
Invalid /etc/master.passwd - cannot add any users!
When i use the -v option i get no different response. I've tried to read
pwd_mkdb and passwd man pages which don't seem to offer any clues also.
Any clues on how I may fix this?
eg