On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, Louis Harvey wrote: > Hello ! > > For the first time after installing FreeBSD 5.2.1, I am trying to add > a new user, but without success so far. I have tried many times (as > root), with /usr/sbin/adduser and also with /stand/sysinstall > > Configure > User Management > User (Add a new user to the system), but > the operation seems fo fail at the end, when I give the final YES. I > get the following error message: > > pw: user 'user' disappeared during update > > I have checked on the Web giving the error message as input to google, > but got only one highly pertinent message. In the end, the guy says he > re-installed FreeBSD, wihich I cannot do right now.
Maybe this will help: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-February/034920.html > > I checked with the command vipw, and emacs shows the lines > corresponding the users I attempted to create along with the other > users I created at install time. There is no subdir under /home for my > attempts at creating those users, nor can I log into the system with > those users. > > Please, could someone help me with this message? > > Salutations, Louis Harvey > _______________________________________________ Oliver -- ... don't touch the bang bang fruit _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"