user disappeared: 𝚙𝚠 says user existed when trying to add,...

drywall_dan

I was following the steps at http://bin63.com/how-to-setup-a-git-repository-on-freebsd to set up Git on a server and when I went to set up the user with pw useradd the server said the user disappeared during configuration. Now, when I try to do pw useradd it says the user already existed, but if I try pw userdel it says “no such user”; same with mod . The user doesn’t show up when I do pw usershow ‑a but it is in /etc/passwd . How do I get this...

Originally asked by aron.duby on Stack Exchange (unix) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

It looks like your /etc/pwd.db and/or /etc/spwd.db got out of sync, try running: pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd (make backup first!).

Full answer by alexus: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/155821 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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