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

Dave Walker dave at mudsite.com
Sun Jul 17 15:53:00 UTC 2005


Stephen R Laniel wrote:

>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.
>
>  
>
What is ypcat, how do I install it.  No I am not running NIS.  I am 
running NFS for sharing /home.

--
Dave




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