On Sun, 22 May 2005, [ISO-8859-1] Kövesdán Gábor wrote: > Thanks for your suggestion. I use 'files' lookup. As You wrote I checked > the syntax with pwd_mkdb -C /etc/passwd' and it returned nothing. Then I > did a rebuild with -p, and now it seems to be okay, the two accounts > that had gone away are working now.
Okay, perhaps the password database files had become corrupted. > > Anyway I haven't changed the nsswitch.conf, I have the default one: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] less /etc/nsswitch.conf > group: compat > group_compat: nis > hosts: files dns > networks: files > passwd: compat > passwd_compat: nis > shells: files Looks right. A database problem would make sense. > > Cheers, > > Gábor Kövesdán > > > >What are you using for user lookups? Are you using nss_ldap or something > >other than the default 'files' lookup? Can you post the contents of > >/etc/nsswitch.conf? > > > >I'd also check your master.passwd file for any syntax errors or odd > >characters and then force a rebuild with: > > > >pwd_mkdb -p /etc/master.passwd > > > >as root. > > > > > > > -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"