Create an Account Fails

[youraverageboy]

WWWAcct 8.0 by J. Nick Koston

[specific Info]

User test1co added
Changing password for test1co
Password for test1co has been changed
Unable to add the user test1co


In the script wwwacct the section that is failing is this.

if(!getpwnam($user)){
deaderror" Unable to add user $user";
}

The user wasn't added previous to running this. If I am looking at this correctly it is supposed to skip over this when it gets a NULL because there is no entry to match. However, since it is erroring out...it leads me to believe it thinks the name is already created. I don't get it. If anyone has some insight on this it would be greatly appriciated.

[youraverageboy]

The solution was here.

http://forums.cpanel.net/showthread....to+add+account

[youraverageboy]

I still don't think it should be necessary to stop nscd to get the account to be created. Perhaps someone knows more about this than I do.

[rking]

I was getting :

groupadd: Unable to open group shadow file

in the cpanel error log

I ran :

grpconv to rebuild the group shadow file from group and accounts started working again.

Hope this helps someone.

[ebinfo]

i have a similar issue, but in my case, grpconv complains that it cannot open the group file?

i went in there with pico and i could open it just fine so hmmm.