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Old 03-13-2013
[Solved] Cannot "chmod" after account migration on openBSD.

I copy home directory, file /etc/passwd, file /etc/group, file /etc/master.passwd
to the new server.

This is result of "ls/home" on the old server.
Code:
drwxr-xr-x   3 user1          user1                512 Aug  3  2012 user1
drwxr-xr-x  19 user2          user2               2560 Jan  9 09:24 user2

But This is result of "ls/home" on the new server.
Code:
drwxr-xr-x   3 root          wheel                512 Aug  3  2012 user1
drwxr-xr-x  19 root          wheel               2560 Jan  9 09:24 user2

I would like to change root:wheel to user1:user1

This is result of
Code:
chmod user1:user1 user1
chown: user is invalid: user1

Although user1 has been stored in /etc/passwd

Any idea?
Thank you in advance.

Moderator's Comments:
Mod Comment edit by bakunin: Please use CODE-tags.

Last edited by bakunin; 03-13-2013 at 08:13 AM..
# 2  
Old 03-13-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by cyberking
Code:
chmod user1:user1 user1
chown: user is invalid: user1

Although user1 has been stored in /etc/passwd
Depending on the OS you are using there might be a shadow-file: "/etc/security/passwd" (AIX) or "/etx/shadow" (Linux), etc.. When creating/moving a user you should never just copy passwd-entries but use the respective utility: "useradd", "mkuser" or whatever your OS provides.

Just to be sure: you talk about "chmod" and "chown" intermixed. Which one do you have problems with?

I hope this helps.

bakunin
# 3  
Old 03-14-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by bakunin
Depending on the OS you are using there might be a shadow-file: "/etc/security/passwd" (AIX) or "/etx/shadow" (Linux), etc.. When creating/moving a user you should never just copy passwd-entries but use the respective utility: "useradd", "mkuser" or whatever your OS provides.

Just to be sure: you talk about "chmod" and "chown" intermixed. Which one do you have problems with?

I hope this helps.

bakunin
Thank you bakunin. Sorry It's "chown".
Code:
chown user1:user1 user1
chown: user is invalid: user1

I don't want to add new user B'cuz there are a lot of user and they have to change their password or not? And I cannot find shadow file on OpenBSD.
Code:
locate shadow
/usr/X11R6/include/xorg/shadow.h
/usr/X11R6/include/xorg/shadowfb.h
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libshadow.la
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libshadow.so
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libshadowfb.la
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libshadowfb.so

# 4  
Old 03-14-2013
If you inspect the chown source, you'll see that it uses getpwnam(3) to convert the username to a uid. That function reads the binary database files /etc/spwd.db and /etc/pwd.db. Did you rebuild those? If you don't know what I'm talking about, refer to man pwd_mkdb.

It's safest to make edits to the password files using vipw. As always, if you break it, you get to keep all the pieces.

Regards,
Alister

Last edited by alister; 03-14-2013 at 01:56 AM..
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# 5  
Old 03-14-2013
Thank you all. It's solved.
I use this command
Code:
/usr/sbin/pwd_mkdb -p /etc/master.passwd

Moderator's Comments:
Mod Comment edit by bakunin: thanks for the follow-up. Changed the thread title to "solved".

Last edited by bakunin; 03-14-2013 at 04:21 AM..
 
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