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Originally Posted by ieth0
its weird that you dont have passwd and have useradd , almost unix/linux systems has passwd inside /bin,
so it may be two things , somehow passwd binary deleted, if you didn't do that , it may you have rootkit finder installed on the system ?
for useradd problem, check your disk , your system may force system file in readonly mode , or you ran out free disk space.
just try to touch a file inside /etc
and if you had permission denied or such thing check
you may have some messages from kernel there.
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Hi.
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Hi,
I need to add a new user who will only be able to access one single folder on my Solaris 9 system. Can this be achieved by using just useradd or do i need to fiddle with auth_attr table?
TIA,
Selma (4 Replies)
Gurus,
I need to add a user to all the machines. I need a script to do this. I did one but it does not allow me to su to root within a ssh session i open. It exists saying su: Sorry. Please let me know how i can do it. I do not have the freedom of using sudo either.
Regards (4 Replies)
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Hi
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Dear All,
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