Kövesdán Gábor wrote:
Hello there,
there is a strange thing.... FreeBSD 5.3 randomly frogets some of my
users. Sometimes I see in the first column of the ps aux output the
uid number instead of the login name, but next when I run it, there is
the login name. Besides, I tried to chown a directory to an existing
user, but the I get an error message, that there wasn't such user.
I immediately checked passwd, group and master.passwd files in /etc
but the entry for that user was present there. The pw userdel was
unable to delete that user, so I had to manually remove it from those
three files and create it again. It worked then, but a bit later there
was the same result. I'm quite annoyed now. This state isn't safe
enough, I have to do something to get around with this. Do You have
similar experiences? Or do You now some kinda workaround?
Don't edit the /etc/passwd and /etc/master.passwd files directly, you
get into a lot of trouble. Use vipw or the pw command.
Also, please don't crosspost between current and stable. Please post to
whichever branch your machine is following.
-gordon
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