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Someone *cough* had to format and reinstall
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gabriel gryffyn wrote:
>
> hi,
>
> i just installed Mandrake 8.0, and am having some trouble with useradd, of
> all things.
>
> the most obvious problem is that when i use groupadd, i get an error that
> says: "error locking group file" i get this same error when i use useradd
> -g and try to
Hi, Christian,
I had this exact problem on an SGI box. It turns out there was an error in
the /etc/passwd file for my account. I like to use bash (which is a custom
shell in Irix) and had moved the executable from /usr/freeware/bin to the
more standard /usr/sbin without remembering to change t
I would've said perhaps NIS issues, but that doesn't seem to be a factor
here since your on a cobalt. You need physical access to the box, and you
need to login as root and check the logs; chances are messages or secure
will have the info you're looking for. Could be a problem with PAM, but
coba
Hi, everyone.
I have a linux web server that i normally contact by SSH and FTP. Right
now, neither those nor telnet work. Every time i try to connect i get
a login prompt but as soon as i type my password, nothing happens. What
might cause this? If i bring a dummy terminal over to the box (which
It is compiled against libwrap in 7.1; in fact, you have to pass it an
option to ignore the tcpwrappers functionality if you want it to, like the
following:
service finger
{
socket_type = stream
wait= no
user= nobody
server = /u
At 16:08 14/06/2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Does anyone have any experience using tcp_wrappers in conjunction with
>xinetd, as opposed to inetd. The tcp_wrappers man page that came with Red
>Hat 7.1 still refers to the inetd.conf file, but, of course, that no longer
>exists. Is there any reas
Hi, everyone,
Does anyone have any experience using tcp_wrappers in conjunction with
xinetd, as opposed to inetd. The tcp_wrappers man page that came with Red
Hat 7.1 still refers to the inetd.conf file, but, of course, that no longer
exists. Is there any reason I can't invoke tcpd and refer to
hi,
i just installed Mandrake 8.0, and am having some trouble with useradd, of
all things.
the most obvious problem is that when i use groupadd, i get an error that
says: "error locking group file" i get this same error when i use useradd
-g and try to specify a group.
in what might be a r
