Re: [hylafax-users] Mac OS X chpass -a dilemma

[Xavier Blanco <xavier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Michael,

Don't do this in this way under Macosx. Craete de uucp user and group using
Netinfo Manager in Utilities.

regards

xavier





> De: Michael Glaesemann <grzm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Fecha: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 00:03:08 +0900
> Para: hylafax-users@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Asunto: [hylafax-users] Mac OS X chpass -a dilemma
> 
> Hello all!
> 
> I'm currently attempting to install HylaFAX on a 450 MHz G4 PowerMac
> running Mac OS X 10.3.8. The installation has gone relatively smoothly
> up to this point. I've found the documentation[1] very good and
> helpful.
> 
> However, I'm running into a problem running the following command,
> necessary to add the uucp user to /etc/passwd.
> 
> $ sudo chpass -a "uucp:*:10:66::0:0:uucp:/var/spool/uucp:/usr/bin/false"
> 
> I've added /usr/bin/false in the SHELL field, following advice offered
> on a bulletin board[2] in response to this same problem.
> 
> Here's the error I get:
> chpass: -a is only supported for /etc/master.passwd
> chpass: rebuilding the database...
> pwd_mkdb: corrupted entry
> pwd_mkdb: at line #1
> pwd_mkdb: /etc/pw.ncpFK1: Inappropriate file type or format
> chpass: /etc/master.passwd: unchanged
> 
> I see another user ran into the same problem just a few weeks ago [3]
> (appears to be the same person as the original poster of [2]). The
> command itself appears to be fine. When I purposely mistype the chpass
> command, I get a different error:
> 
> $ sudo chpass -a "uucp:*:10:66::0:0:uucp:/var/spool/uucp"chpass: -a is
> only supported for /etc/master.passwd
> chpass: corrupted entry
> 
> Note that in this second case the error is raised by chpass, rather
> than pwd_mkdb. This leads me to think the /etc/passwd file is corrupt
> as it is, even before attempting to add the uucp user via chpass.
> 
> Are there any relatively recent Mac OS X success stories out there? I'd
> love to figure out a way around this, perhaps even writing a patch that
> uses lookupd on Mac OS  X rather than grepping /etc/passwd (as I gather
> may be happening from reading the archives and bugzilla entries).
> 
> Any hints? Suggestions? Pointers to information would be much
> appreciated.
> 
> Thanks for your time,
> 
> Michael Glaesemann
> grzm myrealbox com
> 
> [1] http://www.hylafax.org/howto/misc/installnotes.php#OSX
> [2] http://www.macosx.com/forums/showthread.php?t=49285
> [3] http://www.hylafax.org/archive/2005-02/msg00046.php
> 
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