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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers What happened to my user accounts? Post 18376 by jskillet on Wednesday 27th of March 2002 05:36:33 PM
Old 03-27-2002
Error What happened to my user accounts?

Ahhhh!!!!!!!!
All of my user accounts can no longer login. I suspected a corrupt passwd file, but everything looks OK and the passwd file works when I copy it to another system. All user accounts cannot login...they recieve a "No directory defined" error, but I can logon using root just fine. I have no idea what could have caused this, but I was hoping that maybe someone has seen this before and can help me recover. I'm running Solaris 8 on a Sun Netra T1. Also I have checked all the permissions on the users' home directories as well as the permissions on the passwd and shadow files and all is setup OK. Could be a PAM issue as well, but I would not know how to confim this. Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
Jeff Miller
 

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partimaged-passwd(8)				       Partition Image Server Configuration				      partimaged-passwd(8)

NAME
partimaged-passwd - Manage partimaged user accounts SYNTAX
partimaged-passwd [-Dhl] username password partimaged-passwd [-Dhl] username DESCRIPTION
partimaged can either authenticate against local user accounts (This needs access to /etc/shadow. As this is a potential security risk this method is not recommended) or its own password database in /etc/partimaged/passwd.db. To simplify the management of the partimaged user database this tool was written. It allows to easily add and remove users or list the users in the database. All users in this database are allowed to access the partimaged server. OPTIONS
-D username Delete the specified user from the password file. -l List users in password file and exit. -h Output help information and exit. FILES
/etc/partimaged/passwd.db AUTHORS
Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> SEE ALSO
partimaged(8), partimagedusers(5), partimage(1) Michael Biebl <;biebl@teco.edu> 0.1 partimaged-passwd(8)
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