Re: Running scoadmin on 5.04
- From: Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 03:37:27 -0700 (PDT)
On Sep 1, 10:53 am, jdanskinner <JDanSkin...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have one remaining customer running SCO 5.04 (the D**N thing won't
break)
This morning I tried to add a new user using scoadmin.
When I start scoadmin it just locks. Ctrl-C takes me back to prompt.
I added the new user with useradd with no problems.
Anyone have an idea of what is causing the lockup?
Please don't tell me to upgrade, as I have been trying to get them
moved
to Linux for 6 or 7 years.
Regards...Dan.
Upgrading first will help either way. There are too many old bugs, and
5.0.7 has much superior support for the 'gnutools' package for
somewhat more contemporary GNU toolchains, and a working though not up-
to-date SSH. From my experience last year, it's also much easier to
virtualize for whenever you migrate off of the old hardware.
But scoadmin is mostly a GUI wrapper to command line programs: I
believe it uses the /etc/useradd program for this, and you can try it
from the command line to see if it works or breaks. Also beware of
programs that manually edit /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow: a lot of them
do a very poor job and leave semi-broken debris in place. (I just
spent some time cleaning up after a Linux site that copied /etc/passwd
around, but not /etc/shadow. B-r-r-r-r!)
.
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