[OpenIndiana-discuss] useradd - strange behaviour

[Alexander Eremin]

Try pwck and grpck

Alexander

On Oct 30, 2012, at 8:13 PM, Boris Epstein <borepstein at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I am running OpenIndiana 11 64-bit (SunOS 5.11) and somehow I get the
> following error when I attempt to use useradd:
> 
> root at zeus:~# useradd -d  /s1pool/postgres/ -g postgres -s /usr/bin/bash
> postgres
> UX: useradd: ERROR: Inconsistent password files.  See pwconv(1M).
> root at zeus:~#
> 
> Both /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow are there and look OK. What am I doing
> wrong?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Boris.
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