10-31-2008
Root user doest not exist
Hi All,
I changed the root user home directory to /home/root for some testing purpose, afterwards the logged user name its showing "I have no name" instead of root and also when we want to su to root its giving root user doesnot exist, so I tried to add the root user then its giving root user exists. I checked the passwd and shadow file they are fine. I started the gdm-restart, gdm-safe-restart and configured /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf file also. Am able to login in single user mode but no other run levels.
So, please give me some solutions.
Regards
Shashidhar.B
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NAME
pure-quotacheck - Update virtual quota files for Pure-FTPd
SYNTAX
pure-quotacheck -u username/gid -d home directory [-g group/gid]
DESCRIPTION
pure-quotacheck create a .ftpquota file in the specified directory.
This file contains the current file and size of the directory, and it is used by Pure-FTPd when virtual quotas are enabled.
It's recommended to periodically run pure-quotacheck for every user, in crontabs.
OPTIONS
-d <directory>
Scans the specified <directory>.
-g <group or gid>
Sets the group files will be scanned as. This is optional : if a user name is passed to -u</fR>, group are automatically retrieved.
-u <user or uid>
Set the user name files will be scanned as. This is mandatory, and it can't be "root".
-h Output usage information and exit.
FILES
.ftpquota
EXAMPLES
To run this program the standard way type:
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AUTHORS
Frank DENIS <j at pureftpd dot org>
SECURITY
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SEE ALSO
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RFC 959, RFC 2228, RFC 2389 and RFC 2428.
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