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Old 02-15-2008, 05:19 PM
Ronald J Marchand
 
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Default Lost ftp account in /etc/passwd

Openserver 5.0,6

The user account for ftp is gone. How is it reinstated?
Account manager complains about user ids below 200!

TIA
Ron


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Old 02-15-2008, 05:19 PM
Jean-Pierre Radley
 
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Default Re: Lost ftp account in /etc/passwd

Ronald J Marchand typed (on Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 02:08:36PM -0500):
| Openserver 5.0,6
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| The user account for ftp is gone. How is it reinstated?
| Account manager complains about user ids below 200!
|

You can run pwunconv, edit /etc/passwd and add the ftp user (with uid 72
and gid 28), then run pwconv, then 'authck -av' (twice).

Or edit both /etc/default/accounts and /etc/defaults/authsh to change 200
to 20 temporarily, then revert the edits after adding the account.

(I've never experimented to see which of those two default files governs,
and I've asked SCO people many times why those two files have such
overlap, never have had a reply.)

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JP
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