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Operating Systems Solaris Solaris 10 adduser Post 302664553 by yellow_mustard on Friday 29th of June 2012 07:18:29 PM
Old 06-29-2012
Solaris 10 adduser

Brain teaser,

I was given the task below. I believe the consultant runs software on his laptop that probes our QA tier web servers for xxx The two web servers are xxx


I attempt useradd command on XXX which seems to work, but when I attempt to assign a pwd, the OS denies it and says user doesn't exist.
Code:
myserver# useradd -c "test user" -d /export/home/xxxxxx -m xxxxxx
root@myserver# passwd xxxxx
passwd: User unknown: xxxxxx
Permission denied

I look in /etc/shadow and /etc/passwd and the 'xxxxxx' acct is not found. ( / root partition is not 100%.)

I do the same command on the other server and it works as designed: new acct exists and pwd can be modified.


I've looked in /var/adm logs for some type of error, but I don't see any.

Help appreciated

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