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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!olivea!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!news.mathworks.com!hunter.premier.net!news1.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: cannot addusers Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 18:02:48 -0700 Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Lines: 23 Message-ID: <31FEB0B8.3D52@www.play-hookey.com> References: <4t4ksn$m0u@masala.cc.uh.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) erick guerrero 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! > > When i use the -v option i get no different response. I've tried to read > pwd_mkdb and passwd man pages which don't seem to offer any clues also. > Any clues on how I may fix this? > > eg > Are you logged in as root? -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |