Hi! I'm sure, if you try it now it works. ;-) If this happens again: /sbin/init.d/nscd restart is your friend. On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Tera wrote:
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), and tried at the next command, 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 but it is not possible to set a new password with "passwd".
I checked the passwd-binary with tripwire, but checksums are OK
Trying with "userdel" to remove the user, causes system to tell: userdel: user <username> does not exist
so I decided to remove the lines manually.
Might it be that the system is compromised by intruders? Am I blind for some easy things?
Thanks for all ideas!
Thomas Hartl
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