[Lias] User management problem

[Tom Doyle]

Coming from a windows background I restarted instinctively! :(

I ran 'updatedb' with no parameters... 'find' searches are quicker but same
problem still...

A very annoying problem as it was going to be our new mail server this week.

cheers,
Tom.

-----Original Message-----
From: lias-admin at lists.linux.org.au
[mailto:lias-admin at lists.linux.org.au]On Behalf Of Simon Bryan
Sent: Monday, 5 May 2003 4:21 PM
To: tom at stvincents.nsw.edu.au; lias at lists.linux.org.au
Subject: RE: [Lias] User management problem


Tom,
I think there is an updatedb command that reverifies the users - not sure
use man on it first. Sure I will be corrected if I am wrong!
Also try the Windows solution - reboot - the idea is to restart the relevant
service, but I am not sure which one it is, you could try a look in
/etc/rc.d/init.d to see if one is obvious otherwise reboot (ensure that you
have at least one user and the root user you can login in with first! Test
that with su.

Cheers

> -----Original Message-----
> From: lias-admin at lists.linux.org.au
> [mailto:lias-admin at lists.linux.org.au]On Behalf Of Tom Doyle
> Sent: Mon, 5. May 2003 3:47 PM
> To: lias at lists.linux.org.au
> Subject: [Lias] User management problem
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I have just deleted a batch of users (all of them) from my new
> email server.
> There was no errors and Webmin reported that all was well.
>
> I am trying to add the users again and I get an error saying they users
> already exist. Manually playing with userdel/add gives the following!:
>
> [root at test etc]# /usr/sbin/useradd jonesl
> useradd: user jonesl exists
> [root at test etc]# /usr/sbin/userdel jonesl
> userdel: error deleting password entry
> userdel: error deleting shadow password entry
> userdel: error removing group entry
> userdel: error removing shadow group entry
>
> I have checked the passwd, group, shadow, gshadow & shadow- files. I dont
> know what the last file is but none of them have a jonesl entry
> or any other
> of the users.
>
> Only strange thing is that a select group of users seem to delete and add
> just fine (about 10 out of 700).
>
> No help on google either.
>
> I hope someone can help me. Reply to list please.
>
> cheers,
> Tom.
> _________________________
> Tom Doyle
> Network Administrator
> St Vincent's College
> Rockwall Crescent
> Potts Point NSW 2011
> Ph: 02 9368 1611
> Fx: 02 9356 2118
> tom at stvincents.nsw.edu.au
>
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