strange pw behaviour

[Jonas Sonntag]

On Friday 02 July 2004 15:09, Bill Moran wrote:
> The only other thought I have is that you might have some invalid user
> names? (I'm really reaching here ...)
>
> Can you attach the group file so we can verify the syntax.

I really don't think so... all entries come from pw and pw get's called the 
same way every time (from a script)


here is a part of the /etc/group file:
u186:*:2119:www
u188:*:2121:www
u189:*:2122:www
u197:*:2130:www
u192:*:2125:www


'ls -l' as user www shows:
drwxr-x---   4 u186  u186   512 Apr 23 21:56 u186
drwxr-x---   9 u188  u188  1024 Jul  2 12:32 u188
drwxr-x---   5 u189  u189   512 Jun 25 14:28 u189
drwxr-x---   3 u192  u192   512 Jun  6 20:21 u192
drwxr-x---  11 u197  u197  1024 Jul  2 14:15 u197


'ls -l *' as user www shows something like:
u186:
total 4
drwxr-xr-x  6 u186  u186  512 Jun  5 16:33 some_dir
drwxr-xr-x  4 u186  u186  512 May 11 21:36 another_dir

u188:
total 16
drwxr-xr-x  12 u188  u188   512 Jul  1 17:17 dir1
drwxr-xr-x  17 u188  u188  1024 Jul  1 17:17 dir2
-rw-r--r--   1 u188  u188   280 Jun 30 21:59 file.txt

u189:
ls: u189: Permission denied

u192:
ls: u192: Permission denied

u197:
ls: u197: Permission denied


> Beyond that, I'm at a loss.
Me too... I have been using pw to manage user accounts within different jails  
for quite some time now but never had issues like these..


Thanks anyway.