On 2/9/12, Rick Stevens <rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 02/09/2012 09:31 AM, Marvin Kosmal wrote: >> On 2/9/12, Aaron Konstam<akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 14:43 -0800, Marvin Kosmal wrote: >>>> On 2/8/12, don fisher<hdf3@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>>> When I execute pwck to verify integrity of password files and received >>>>> the following: >>>>> >>>>> sudo pwck >>>>> user 'adm': directory '/var/adm' does not exist >>>>> user 'uucp': directory '/var/spool/uucp' does not exist >>>>> user 'gopher': directory '/var/gopher' does not exist >>>>> user 'avahi-autoipd': directory '/var/lib/avahi-autoipd' does not exist >>>>> user 'oprofile': directory '/home/oprofile' does not exist >>>>> user 'saslauth': directory '/var/empty/saslauth' does not exist >>>>> user 'pulse': directory '/var/run/pulse' does not exist >>>>> invalid password file entry >>>>> >>>>> How should this be fixed? >>>>> >>>>> Don >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> >>>> >>>> Hi >>>> >>>> I don't believe every user has a directory.. >>>> >>>> I think you are "Good to GO!" >>>> >>>> Marvin >>> >>> I don't know if you are good to go but when I run: sudo pwck >>> on my machine except the last entry is: >>> pwck: no changes >>> >>> instead of: invalid password file entry >>> >>> so that is the output that would worry me. It seems you have an invalid >>> entry in the passwd file. It would be nice if the program gave you a >>> hint which entry it is complaining about. >>> >>> -- >>> ======================================================================= >>> Of course you can't flap your arms and fly to the moon. After a while >>> you'd run out of air to push against. >>> ======================================================================= >>> Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> >> >> >> HI >> >> I gave my answer based on three boxes I have they yield similar >> results. Not all users will have a directory. >> >> I stand by my answer.. > > Yes, users do NOT have to have a home directory (especially users that > are primarily there as "owners" of daemons and such and have a shell > of /sbin/nologin). > > The "invalid password file entry" error probably indicates a blank line > at the end of either /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow, so that's the first > place I'd look. Try > > $ sudo vipw -p (edits /etc/passwd safely) > $ sudo vipw -s (edits /etc/shadow safely) > > and check to make sure there aren't any blank lines in the files. Not > sure if pwck chokes on NIS-style entries (e.g. a username of "+") > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - > - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 22643734 Yahoo: origrps2 - > - - > - On a scale of 1 to 10 I'd say... oh, somewhere in there. - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Thanks for the come back.. I did the vipw -p and vipw -s and they all look identical ..No blank lines.. TIA Marvin -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
