Re: system users does not exist

[Ankush Grover <ankush174 gmail com>]

On 1/31/06, anupama 2004 <mallik linux gmail com> wrote:

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sir/madam
Hi
in my system i have installed fedora core-3
and i dont know why  some system users are deleted  from /etc/passwd
file  and when i start some services like postgresql  , sendmail  etc
the system says system user "postgres"   does't exist
i have some important data in my system. so pls tell me hoew to include
these system users again without reinstalling the packages.
i tried with forcebly updating the rpms.  but didn't solved the problem

Thanks/Regards
Mallikarjun Mudumali
9880023898
Thanks/Regards
Mallikarjun Mudumali
9880023898

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hey,

create the users like posgre and other users through "useradd" command.
Normally these users are created when u install the packages or rpms.

useradd postgre 

Regards

Ankush Grover