Problem with creating users with SNAP
Tim Voss
tim at prism.llnl.gov
Thu Apr 27 13:36:28 AEST 1989
>>>
>>>I am having a problem with SNAP in that it no longer will create a user.
>>>I am running on the master yellow page server. The message I receive is
>>>as follows:
>>>
>>> The program cannot prepare changes to this user's
>>> entries in the Yellow Pages database.
>>>
>>>I have tried a complete rebuild of the YP databases as suggested in the
>>>release notes for 4.0.1. (I am running 4.0.2 pre-release.) The manual
>>>method described in 386i Advanced Administration and modified in the Admin
>>>release notes works just fine, so I know there's nothing obviously wrong
>>>with the data in YP.
>>>
>>>Has anybody seen this problem and solved it?
>>>
>>>--Mike
>>>
>>>Michael Morse Internet: mmorse at note.nsf.gov
>>>National Science Foundation BITNET: mmorse at NSF
Yes - seen it. Worked around it!
I noticed that SNAP seems to get stuck in a funny state, where it has
trouble doing almost anything - creating users is just one example.
After some experimenting, I resolved the problems by:
quiting SNAP (get the thing out of memory)
restarting SNAP.
Here's one other little discovery:
DON'T use the group 'Wheel' if you are going to add users!
i.e. If you are a member of the wheel group, and you try to add
a new user (via SNAP) - that user's home directory does NOT
get exported ! (Who knows what-else might be wrong with
the new acct you create. I noticed other problems which will
plague users added in this way).
Bottom line: DON'T use the group 'Wheel' for SNAP administration.
--Tim Voss
Lawrence Livermore National Lab
tim at prism.llnl.gov
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