[OpenIndiana-discuss] useradd - strange behaviour

[Alexander Eremin]

useradd adds info to group, passwd, shadow, project and user_attr - so try to check also last two files.

Alexander

On Oct 30, 2012, at 8:34 PM, Boris Epstein <borepstein at gmail.com> wrote:

> root at zeus:~# wc -l /etc/passwd /etc/shadow
>      29 /etc/passwd
>      29 /etc/shadow
>      58 total
> root at zeus:~#
> 
> I looked at the content, too - and, while it is possible I missed
> something, it looked quite normal to me.
> 
> Boris.
> 
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Alexander Eremin <
> alexander.r.eremin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Well, next round could be : wc -l /etc/passwd /etc/shadow
>> 
>> 
>> Alexander
>> 
>> On Oct 30, 2012, at 8:25 PM, Boris Epstein <borepstein at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Alexander,
>>> 
>>> Thanks. Just did:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> root at zeus:~# pwck
>>> 
>>> lp:x:71:8:Line Printer Admin:/usr/spool/lp:
>>>       Login directory not found
>>> 
>>> uucp:x:5:5:uucp Admin:/usr/lib/uucp:
>>>       Login directory not found
>>> 
>>> nuucp:x:9:9:uucp Admin:/var/spool/uucppublic:/usr/lib/uucp/uucico
>>>       Login directory not found
>>>       Optional shell file not found
>>> root at zeus:~# grpck
>>> root at zeus:~#
>>> 
>>> Nothing particularly bad detected, as far as I can tell.
>>> 
>>> Boris.
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Alexander Eremin <
>>> alexander.r.eremin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 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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