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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!demos!solace!not-for-mail From: pp@pfawww.pp.se (Per Persson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: cannot addusers Date: 24 Jul 1996 11:11:54 GMT Organization: People's Front Against (bozotic) WWW (softwar foundation) Lines: 12 Message-ID: <4t50dq$a1c@fizban.solace.mh.se> References: <4t4ksn$m0u@masala.cc.uh.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: pfawww.pp.se In article <4t4ksn$m0u@masala.cc.uh.edu>, erick guerrero <eguerrer@Bayou.UH.EDU> wrote: >whenever i try to addusers with the adduser command i get this: > >pwd_mkdb: /etc/master.passwd: Permission denied > >Invalid /etc/master.passwd - cannot add any users! Are you root when doing this? Does /etc/master.passwd have rw permissions and is it owned by root? --pp