If you have a problem with user administration in FC2 or RHEL4 where you add a user but then cannot modify or use the account, restart the nscd service to reload the passwd and group files into the cache.

This kind of thing can drive you crazy. Here I am, trying to work on my Red Hat Knowledge Base Article on Backups (and set up the WSN server to be fully backed up at the same time), by setting up a remote machine to connect and do an rsync, and I get stuck on trying to create a user. Computers are supposed to save time, but in reality they just take time. That self-sufficient lifestyle block at New Govardhana is sounding more and more enticing with each passing day…