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On Fri, 10 Mar 2000 17:12:36 GMT, alowance@my-deja.com wrote:
>It sounds like you are trying to assign a UID that is already taken.
>You need to grep for UID 100 in your passwd file or ypmatch it in
>passwd.byuid if you are using NIS.  This will return who is assigned the
>UID 100.  If you want to use useradd and assign a different UID use
>the -u flag.  However, it should assign a number not already in use.
>Hope this helps.

no, the original poster is just trying to use the defaults. But useradd
is not giving the appropriate error message.
I hit this when I "tighten up" permissions on some firewall boxes. useradd
no longer works, unless you manually specify the UID with -u.
probably becuase useradd is using some interesting getxxxxent calls that I
dont remember right now, and needs somewhat lax permissions in places to
dothis.

Similar to
"pkgadd wont run if user nobody does not have permission to write to...
[?]"


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