On 02/09/2012 03:01 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
On 02/09/2012 01:38 PM, Marvin Kosmal wrote:
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
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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.
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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 "+")
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Thanks for the come back..
I did the vipw -p and vipw -s and they all look identical ..No blank
lines..
The question is are there any blank lines at the end? That can be
difficult to see in an editor. When using vipw, try entering ":$"
(without the quotes, just colon-dollarsign). That should put you on
the last line of the file, which should contain data. If that's a
blank line, there's your answer.
Using "cat" can also tell you something. If you (as root) do "cat
/etc/passwd", make sure that the command prompt appears IMMEDIATELY
after the data. If there's a blank line between the output and the
prompt, you have a blank line at the end of the file.
Samples:
Good (no blank line at end of file):
[root@prophead server]# cat /tmp/wook
1
2
3
4
[root@prophead server]#
Bad (blank line at end of file):
[root@prophead server]# cat /tmp/wook
1
2
3
4
[root@prophead server]# vi /tmp/wook
("/tmp/wook" is just a scratch filename I used)
Additional note, I just used vipw to add a blank line to the end of
/etc/passwd and got the same error the OP got when I ran pwck, but with
a "delete line?" prompt. I didn't accept that and used vipw to delete
the blank and pwck ran clean.
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