[SunHELP] Setting user account

[Jon]

You need to read the man page for pwconv then run that command. It may tke
a while to run depending on how many entries you have.

Jon


On Mon, 6 May 2002, victor kiyan wrote:

> Hello everybody,
>  Need help adding users to a newly installed solaris 8
> Sparc 5, this is what I'm doing:
>
> # useradd -u 1004 -g 10 -d /export/home/test -s
> /bin/sh user1
>
> and I'm getting:
>
>  ERROR: Inconsistent password files. See pwconv(1M)
>
> I have not edit the etc/passwd or any other files.
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Also when I tried to create a user's home directory
>
>      # mkdir /home/user it gives me:
>
> Failed to make directory "/home/user"; no such file or
> directory.
>
> I wonder what's the procedure to create a user account
> all the manuals that I have won't help.
> Appreciate your inputs Thank you..
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