[Lias] User management problem

[Tom Doyle]

OK. I've made a breakthrough... I overlooked your comment Andrew. Sorry!

In my distress I had forgotten to check if NIS was running.
I had initially set it up to play around & see if it suited me for virtual
qmail accounts. I decided it didnt and forgot about it.

I killed yp.
added a "faulty" user. success.
deleted the same user. success.

I'm happy! Thanks for the ideas people. I have learnt some things to think
about when problem solving.

Thanks,
Tom =D


-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Dorrell [mailto:andrew.dorrell at cisra.canon.com.au]
Sent: Monday, 5 May 2003 5:09 PM
To: sbryan at olmc.nsw.edu.au
Cc: tom at stvincents.nsw.edu.au
Subject: Re: [Lias] User management problem


Simon Bryan wrote:
> 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!

you are.  updatedb updates the database for slocate - which helps you
search for files on youe system

> 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.

This rarely helps....

You may need to propagate changes if you are managing passwords using
LDAP or NIS

You may have left traces of the user ID around by not using the -r
option on userdel?  This option is required in order to remove home
directories of deleted users.  Otherwise, sorry, I'm not sure.


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Andrew Dorrell