Error in password file?

[Marvin Kosmal]

On 2/9/12, Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 14:43 -0800, Marvin Kosmal wrote:
>> On 2/8/12, don fisher <hdf3 at comcast.net> wrote:
>> > When I execute pwck to verify integrity of password files and received
>> > the following:
>> >
>> > sudo pwck
>> > user 'adm': directory '/var/adm' does not exist
>> > user 'uucp': directory '/var/spool/uucp' does not exist
>> > user 'gopher': directory '/var/gopher' does not exist
>> > user 'avahi-autoipd': directory '/var/lib/avahi-autoipd' does not exist
>> > user 'oprofile': directory '/home/oprofile' does not exist
>> > user 'saslauth': directory '/var/empty/saslauth' does not exist
>> > user 'pulse': directory '/var/run/pulse' does not exist
>> > invalid password file entry
>> >
>> > How should this be fixed?
>> >
>> > Don
>> >
>> > --
>> >
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> I don't believe every user has a directory..
>>
>> I think you are  "Good to GO!"
>>
>> Marvin
>
> I don't know if you are good to go but when I run: sudo pwck
> on my machine except the last entry is:
> pwck: no changes
>
> instead of: invalid password file entry
>
> so that is the output that would worry me. It seems you have an invalid
> entry in the passwd file. It would be nice if the program gave you a
> hint which entry it is complaining about.
>
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HI

I gave my answer based on three boxes I have they yield similar
results.   Not all users will have a directory.

I stand by my answer..


YMMV.

Marvin