On Nov 28, 2005, at 9:06 AM, Lowell Gilbert wrote:

"Anthony M. Agelastos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Hello all,

During the upgrade to 6.0, I may have created the user _dhcp
incorrectly. I was made aware of the problem when I noticed the
message during boot:

Setting hostname: ast.home.iq.
rl0: link state changed to DOWN
rl0: no link ....rl0: link state changed to UP
got link
no such user: _dhcp, falling back to nobody
DHCPREQUEST on rl0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPACK from 192.168.0.1
bound to 192.168.0.4 -- renewal in 129600 seconds.

So, as root, I tried to create them and delete them. This is proving
unsuccessful. See below.

ast# pw userdel _dhcp
pw: no such user `_dhcp'
ast# pw useradd _dhcp -u 65 -c "dhcp programs" -d /var/empty -s /usr/
sbin/nologin
pw: user '_dhcp' already exists

Are there any recommendations? I am running FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE. Some
additional information is below. Thank you so much for your
assistance. I checked the mailing list as well as Google and did not
find a fix for this particular problem. I found someone mentioning
that the database may need to be rebuilt (however I have no idea how
to do this).

ast# cat master.passwd | grep dhcp
_dhcp:*:65:65::0:0:dhcp programs:/var/empty:/usr/sbin/nologin
ast# cat passwd | grep dhcp
_dhcp:*:65:65:dhcp programs:/var/empty:/usr/sbin/nologin
ast# cat group | grep dhcp
_dhcp:*:65:
ast# uname -a
FreeBSD ast.home.iq 6.0-STABLE FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE #0: Sat Nov  5
21:29:34 EST 2005     [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/IQKERNEL
i386

pwd_mkdb(8)?

Hello and thank you for your reply. I tried the following and here is where it got me:

ast# pwd_mkdb -u _dhcp /etc/master.passwd
ast# pwd_mkdb -u _dhcp /etc/passwd
pwd_mkdb: corrupted entry
pwd_mkdb: at line #3
pwd_mkdb: /etc/passwd: Inappropriate file type or format
ast# pwd_mkdb -u -p _dhcp /etc/passwd
usage: pwd_mkdb [-BCiLNp] [-d directory] [-s cachesize] [-u username] file
ast# pwd_mkdb -p -u _dhcp /etc/passwd
pwd_mkdb: corrupted entry
pwd_mkdb: at line #3
pwd_mkdb: /etc/passwd: Inappropriate file type or format
ast# pw userdel _dhcp
pw: no such user `_dhcp'
ast# pw useradd _dhcp -u 65 -c "dhcp programs" -d /var/empty -s /usr/ sbin/nologin
pw: user '_dhcp' already exists

Should I be doing something else? How can I wipe the slate clean with users, groups, and accounts? I tried going through sysinstall and when I try to add _dhcp as a user, it gives me an error code (The `pw' command exited with unexpected status 74) after it mentions that the requested shell "/usr/sbin/nologin" is not a valid user shell. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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