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Index of Subjects > On Sat, 11 Nov 2000, John Kurilec wrote: > > > I have a couple of questions regarding the handling of accounts. > > I attempted to activate a new account and while a number of files were > > created for the account there was no entry in the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow > > files for the account. I did find the the account in the following files: > > Wait until the top of the hour, or run '/var/csuite/cronbin/csuite-cron' > as root. Changes to the passwd file are done in hourly batches. > I have been trying to get this one account to work for quite a few days. Is there any way to complete the account or do I have to have the person resubmit for another account? As I mentioned it seems to have created the home directory ok but not the rest needed to access the account. > > I also have a pending account application which is obviously bogus, how can > > I remove it from the pending file? > > Just leave it there - it takes up maybe five hundred bytes. :) Just was wondering about cleaning up unused accounts for future use. Thanks John -- John M. Kurilec Organization For Community Networks (OFCN) WWW: http://ofcn.org P.O. Box 32175 Euclid, Ohio 44132 Voice: 216-731-9801 Fax: 216-731-9802 Please consider making a tax deductable contribution to keep the system growing.
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