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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!newsfeeds.sol.net!worldnet.att.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.mathworks.com!news1.best.com!nntp1.ba.best.com!shell3.ba.best.com!not-for-mail From: dhawk@shell3.ba.best.com (David Hawkins) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Permission is denied Date: 9 Apr 1997 09:15:38 -0700 Organization: Decline to State Lines: 27 Message-ID: <5igfba$2od@shell3.ba.best.com> References: <E8D0DJ.28M@racoon.riga.lv> NNTP-Posting-Host: shell3.ba.best.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38858 In article <E8D0DJ.28M@racoon.riga.lv>, Fair pay <fairpay@stoat.riga.lv> wrote: >adduser was used for more then a year to add new users to the system. But >when it was tried yesterday to add a new ones, after work of adduser it >was not possible to use the new accounts. After login/password input, the >system shows 'you have new mail' and then permission denied, and then >login prompts appears again. What could be the cause ? Go to their home directory and see if it exists and who owns it. See if the .profile or .cshrc or .login was created. Are they owned by the user? Do a tail /etc/passwd and see if the user_number is less than 65000 Check the kernel and see what maximum number of users was configured for when you built it. Does the problem happen when more than 10 people are online? Make sure there are no blank lines in /etc/passwd Maybe you're out of pseudottys? See if the disk is full? Maybe the home directory wasn't fully created? later, david -- David Hawkins dhawk@best.com http://www.river.org/~dhawk There seems no plan because it's all plan. There seems no center because it's all center. -- C. S. Lewis