RE: Unavailability of Chsh / ability to change user shell

["Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>]

----Original Message----
>From: Igor Pechtchanski
>Sent: 18 August 2005 18:47

> On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Jerrad Pierce wrote:

 
>> 	[jpierce@dof-con122 /cygdrive/c]$ passwd
>> 	passwd: unknown user jpierce
> 
> Your user is missing in /etc/passwd.  Try "mkpasswd -u jpierce >>
> /etc/passwd".  Once you have a correct user entry, "passwd" should work.


  Nope, he's hit a real bug here.  It doesn't seem to work for domain users,
anyway:

dk@mace /etc> mv passwd passwd.old
dk@mace /etc> mkpasswd -u dk > passwd
mkpasswd: Specify one of `-l', `-d' or `-g'
dk@mace /etc> mkpasswd -l -u dk > passwd
mkpasswd (257): [2221] The user name could not be found.
dk@mace /etc> mkpasswd -d -u dk > passwd
dk@mace /etc> cat passwd
dk:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:11165:10513:Dave
Korn,U-ARTIMI_CAM\dk,S-1-5-21-335682923
0-1345131237-316312364-1165:/home/dk:/bin/bash
dk@mace /etc> passwd
passwd: unknown user dk
dk@mace /etc> mv passwd.old passwd
dk@mace /etc>



    cheers,
      DaveK
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