usermod command is disabled.

[Mike_305]

Hello,

I am trying to run usermod and getting messages like "usermod command is disabled."

Does anyone know how fix this or enable it?

Appreciate your help in advance.

Regards,

MJ

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi:

This sounds like the binary has been replaced by a script that prints the message you note.

What does 'file usermod' report? If it's a "text" file what does 'cat usermod' show?

Regards!

...JRF...

[Mike_305]

JRF,

Not sure how to find out if this is really doing it not, is their any way to find out?

echo " It causes system corruption"

I don't want to undo the link and then find out this was put in the place for a reason.


Regards,

MJ

[Anshumali]

Either you want to or you dont want to. In any case, you can move this to your test machine to see what its actually doing and check with actual administrators of this machine why this was there.

[Kapil Jha]

Can you please send the file asked by JRF

#file usermod
if its a link.....send us also
#file linked_file

and if its a text file just send
cat file_name

BR,
Kapil+

[Mike_305]

Hello,

Thanks for you help, JRF was right it's the text file was poinging to the text file. Not sure why it was done that but I can change it later after some home work is done.

appreciate your help.

Regards,

MJ