06-10-2011
Have you viewed the file to see what type of emails are in that file. It might give you some clue to what type of problem, if there is a problem is being reported to this user.
What is the purpose of the pdgadmin id?
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userdbck
userdbck(1M) userdbck(1M)
NAME
userdbck - verify or fix information in the user database, /var/adm/userdb
SYNOPSIS
[file]
DESCRIPTION
verifies the information in the user database reports inconsistencies, and fixes problems.
If no options and no arguments are specified, reports all data corruption problems in all files in
If the option is also specified, each reported problem is repaired.
If a file argument (hex 00-ff) is specified, only that file in the directory is verified.
Options
The following options are recognized:
Verify attributes. Information in
is used to report any attribute that is not valid, not allowed in the user database, has an invalid value, or is allowed only
for a local user and the user is not in
Normally when the user database is disabled (see
userdb(4)), immediately exits without verifying or repairing the database. The option overrides this and forces to verify or
repair the database.
Verify user names.
User names found in the database are reported if they do not exist in any of the repositories defined in This option could take
a long time on a system with many users.
Repair all data corruption problems that are found.
If this option is not specified, problems are reported but not repaired.
Notes
Only users who have read and write access to can run
RETURN VALUE
exits with one of the following values:
success: no inconsistencies were found
inconsistencies were found and fixed
invalid usage
database is disabled; see
userdb(4)
inconsistencies were found but not fixed,
because the option was not specified
a problem was found that could not be fixed
EXAMPLES
In the following example, all problems in the user database are reported but not repaired.
In the following example, all problems in file are reported and repaired.
FILES
user database
security defaults configuration file
security attributes description file
SEE ALSO
userdbget(1M), userdbset(1M), userdb_read(3), security(4), userdb(4).
userdbck(1M)