You should have a line like this in /etc/passwd
named:x:25:25:Named:/var/named:/sbin/nologin
if not, stick it in and the error might go away.
Thanks. That did it. However. Why is "named" required to be there since I'm
not running Bind?t
Bind was installed by default. However, since this is a workstation, I
uninstalled Bind using RPM -e. It seems that that left some junk around.
Does the Original Poster have that installed? Does he have
caching-nameserver, NetworkManager, or anything else that depends on it?
No, none of them, as explained above.
If bind isn't installed, I'd recommend doing a yum install bind
Why should I do it, since I'm not interested in having it?
If the Original Poster didn't have bind installed, and hadn't tried
installing any RPM's with --force, and hasn't mucked about manually,
*and* has all the latest updates installed, this probably ought to go
into bugzilla.
I have not installed anything with RPM --force or modified any settings
manually. I keep the system updated with Yum.
Can I erase that line "named:x:25:25:Named:/var/named:/sbin/nologin" in
/etc/passwd if I delete the line for named in /etc/shadow?
Thanks,
EGCP
