From: Michael <confabulate@kintzios.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] acct-user/man usermod: user 'man' does not exist in /etc/passwd
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2024 10:30:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3286668.aeNJFYEL58@rogueboard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <69589432-a6c3-3314-b99e-fc5d34bb0e20@gmail.com>
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On Thursday, 11 April 2024 10:22:59 BST Dale wrote:
> I fixed it by commenting out the entry in the passwd file. It then
> created a new entry. I guess it was set wrong at some point. Just
> looks like emerge would be able to update it tho. Joost showing my
> setting was different gave me the clue that my current entry was wrong.
> I was kinda chicken to comment it out or remove it before then. ;-)
>
> Dale
>
> :-) :-)
It begs the question who/what could have changed the root group membership to
include the system account 'man'. This is highly irregular. Have you looked
at your backups to find out when /etc/group was changed last time? Also
emerge.log to find the last time acct-user/man was installed successfully
before this error started occurring.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-04-11 9:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-04-11 1:23 [gentoo-user] acct-user/man usermod: user 'man' does not exist in /etc/passwd Dale
2024-04-11 5:22 ` J. Roeleveld
2024-04-11 8:16 ` Dale
2024-04-11 8:52 ` J. Roeleveld
2024-04-11 7:57 ` Michael
2024-04-11 9:22 ` Dale
2024-04-11 9:30 ` Michael [this message]
2024-04-11 11:58 ` Dale
2024-04-11 14:52 ` Michael
2024-04-11 15:08 ` Dale
2024-04-11 15:41 ` Michael
2024-04-12 14:32 ` Dale
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