Today Tera slept on the keyboard and thought about [suse-security] passwd...
I work with SuSE 6.2 kernel 2.2.10 on some linux-boxes Today I made a new user with "useradd <username>" (I was logged in as root via ssh), ... to give this new user a password with passwd <username>. The system replies: passwd: Unknown user <username> but the user is listed in /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow
Hi! I had the same problme few weeks ago. I found out that a reboot solved the problem, after a little investigation and some help I think it is this name caching daemon (nscd). Try to restart it after useradd, maybe this solves the problem. ciao gregor -- Gregor Hlawacek 8700 Leoben http://www.unileoben.ac.at/~m9327555/ Austria ###################################################################### In 1968 it took the computing power of two C-64 to fly to the moon. Now, 1999 you need the computing power of PentiumII 400 to open a simple window. Something must have gone wrong!