thank u all, (this comes a little late, sorry i had no internet con.)
i seem to have totally forgotten about the passwd-db. YES i have edited
them all with vi
i removed my entrys and did them again with vipw.
now all works very fine :)
thx morla
You said you "entered" into those files. Did you vi(1) them mnaually?
Did you rebuild the database afterward? When you finger the user, what
does the shell show up as? Use either vipw(8) as root, to do this, or
use chfn(1) as the user.
~BAS
On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, morla wrote:
hello all,
i
hmm, on Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 07:53:52AM +0200, morla said that
> i just made up a second account on my box and wanted to prevent the old
> one from loging into it, due i want to keep it for email retrival.
i am not 100% sure what "retrival" means, but if you want to
keep the account only for rece
On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, morla wrote:
> hello all,
>
> i just made up a second account on my box and wanted to prevent the old one
> from loging into it, due i want to keep it for email retrival.
>
> when i enter something like
>
> morla:*:1000:1000:morla:/home/morla:/sbin/nologin
>
> into /etc/p
On 2005-10-21T07:53, morla wrote:
> hello all,
>
> i just made up a second account on my box and wanted to prevent the old
> one from loging into it, due i want to keep it for email retrival.
>
> when i enter something like
>
> morla:*:1000:1000:morla:/home/morla:/sbin/nologin
>
> into /etc/p
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 07:53:52AM +0200, morla wrote:
> hello all,
>
> i just made up a second account on my box and wanted to prevent the old
> one from loging into it, due i want to keep it for email retrival.
>
> when i enter something like
>
> morla:*:1000:1000:morla:/home/morla:/sbin/nol
Hi,
#pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd
to generate the new password database and try again.
morla wrote:
hello all,
i just made up a second account on my box and wanted to prevent the
old one from loging into it, due i want to keep it for email retrival.
when i enter something like
morla:*:1000:
hello all,
i just made up a second account on my box and wanted to prevent the old
one from loging into it, due i want to keep it for email retrival.
when i enter something like
morla:*:1000:1000:morla:/home/morla:/sbin/nologin
into /etc/passwd and a similary entry into /etc/master.passwd s
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