Cannot open the password file to add the user

[X-ChemicaL]

Hi i get this error some`1 can help me aut thx
when i create an email account

Error creating account



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Cannot open the password file to add the user

[jlasman]

What OS distribution?

What's the output of these three commands:

ls -ald /
ls -ald /etc/
ls -ald /etc/passwd
ls -ald /etc/group
ls -ald /etc/shadow

???

Jeff

[X-ChemicaL]

THX its fixed and im running freebsd

[resolveit]

Please post how it was fixed so other people can learn from your experience...

[X-ChemicaL]

Originally posted by resolveit
Please post how it was fixed so other people can learn from your experience...

I deleted the accounts from direct admin and did a read of the accounts that where not correct :)

[Louis Philip]

Hi, I'm getting the same kind of error and I didn't really understand what exactly it is that I should do. Wondering if someone could explain this to me..

Thanks,