Can't add a user, exists. Can't delete does not exist.

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 11:23:52AM -0400, Dave Walker wrote:
> I looked through all: passwd, passwd-, shadow, shadow- for the username 
> but none contain it.  Any ideas on how to make this work?

Is it possible that you have NIS set up? It may be that the
username and password are stored on a remote NIS server. Try
doing

ypcat passwd

and see what you get.

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