problem with "pw"

Matthew Seaman m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk
Sat Jun 9 07:40:22 UTC 2007


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Eric Dedrick wrote:
> I'm having a nuisance problem, especially when I try to update my
> ports.  I'm using cups as an example, but other ports show the
> problem:
> 
> root# pw usershow cups
> pw: no such user `cups'
> root# pw useradd cups -g cups -u 193
> pw: user 'cups' already exists
> 
> Any idea what the problem is and how to fix it?

pwd_mkdb(8) perhaps.

	Cheers,

	Matthew
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