[98461] in RedHat Linux List
Re: PAM_pwdb problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anthony E. Greene)
Mon Nov 9 07:14:42 1998
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 12:54:47 +0100
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From: "Anthony E. Greene" <agreene@pobox.com>
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At 04:26 1998-11-09 -0500, Jan Carlson wrote:
>Nathan J Yourchuck wrote:
>> I am having trouble adding any new users to my system. I am running Redhat
>> 5.1. I have added users on other 5.1 machines before, but for some reason
>> things got screwed up when I tried to add users to this box.
[snip]
>
>Ok, it says your password/shadow files are not consistent.
>Try pwunconv (moves passwords from shadow to passwd; removes shadow),
>then pwconv (creates a shadow file and moves passwords into it.).
>Try to avoid editing passwd or shadow...
To add a new user, create the user with the 'adduser' command. Then, use
'passwd username' to set the new user's password.
Tony
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