Already in use

[Ivan Kohler]

DON'T RUN FREESIDE ON A MACHINE WITH USER ACCOUNTS!!!

That said, if you want Freeside to add users to REMOTE machines, you need
to follow the directions at the bottom of htdocs/docs/export.html.

On Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 04:45:42PM -0700, Jay wrote:
> 
> Here's a new one. When I go to add a user account via the FreeSide system,
> it is added to the PostgreSQL database, but never added to the system. The
> web browser just hangs for about 5 minutes, then times out with a no data
> error. During that 'time out', if I do a 'ps auxwww' I see the ssh useradd
> command hanging; it looks like ssh is never able to connect to
> root at localhost to add the user. After it times out, if I sumbit the same
> data again, it tells me that the username is already in use. Then, if I
> got back to the main menu and browse the database, it shows all of the
> users there, but still they were never entered into the password file. 
> 
> Any sugguestions about how to get ssh to complete the process? Thanks. :)
> 
> ~Jay
> 
> - J a y   J a c o b s o n
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> - jay at kinetic.org   www.kinetic.org
> 
> Quantum Mechanics: The dreams stuff is made of.
> 
> 

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Open-source billing and administration for ISPs - http://www.sisd.com/freeside
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