Re: FC4 - useradd problem
On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 23:12 -0500, Ali Sobhi wrote:
I just ran into this problem on FC4 that the command line
"useradd" dies
with no messages and leaves .lock files in /etc/
Selinux is disabled and I'm using "root" account to add users.
The home directory is created with a uid and gid but passwd, group and the
corresponding shadow files are not updated
However, while using the GUI version, I'm able to add users !
what happened?
Regards,
Ali Sobhi
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Make sure you don't have any excessivly long lines in :
/etc/passwd
/etc/shadow
/etc/group
/etc/gshadow
I ran into a problem recently where someone had hundreds of
users assigned to a group and useradd would fail without
explanation. I discovered it after I backed up all those files
and used vipw and vigr to delete all the extra accounts, I
discovered that every user had been added to the users group.
'strace' may have shown the problem, but I didn't have to resort
to that level of diagnostics to solve the problem.
Good Luck