From: Jonathan Williams (jonathw@shubertorg.com)
Date: Tue Feb 03 2004 - 10:05:02 EST
I have a weird problem, but I'm sure I'm just doing something wrong. I am in
the process of training a co-worker to be a backup sys admin. I am using a
Alphaserver ES40 running Tru64 5.1b PK 3 for his training.
I was showing him how to go about adding users, and I noticed something odd. We
have password shadowing enabled on this system. I usually add users via the
"adduser" program. This always works nicely. I then showed my co-worker the
"dxaccounts" program so he could see that. What I noticed was that none of the
users that I have added with "adduser" are in there. Dxaccounts only seems to
have the users that existed BEFORE shadowing was enabled.
Another odd thing I noticed was that if I add a new user via dxaccounts, and
then exit and restart that program...the user disappears. The user is still in
the system, and in the /etc/passwd file, but does not show up in dxaccounts.
So am I doing something wrong here? Or is it working as intended? This is a
stand-alone system (not clustered), and just uses normal local users...no NIS or
anything like that. Any help would be appreciated. =)
Jonathan Williams
Unix Systems Administrator
The Shubert Organization, Inc.
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