and the winner is: John Speno
thanx also to Curt Cranfield, Mandel Degerness, and Lisa Kim.
John asked the question:"is there a blank line in your /etc/passwd file?"
and by-golly, there was! a quick vipw and we're off to the races.
no idea where the blank line came from but it's gone now!
thanx to all!
<original post>
> when i do a #removeuser name i get a
> working....
> userdel: specified user not found
> message.
> but a grep name passwd shows the user's entry.
> i searched the archives but found no matches to
> my quandry (some were close but no cigar).
> running 4.0D unpatched and no C2. was thinking
> about removing manually, emacsing the entry out of
> passwd and doing a mkpasswd. any reason why not?
> tia.
Received on Tue Sep 21 1999 - 19:39:11 NZST