Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 03:04:02 GMT
From: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa)
To: cchrstns@sdln.net ("Corey A. Christians")
Cc: questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: master.passwd corruption
Message-ID: <37b235e8.659193980@mail.sentex.net>
In-Reply-To: <MAIL001301bee440$fa803a60$5dfc34cc@sdln.net>
References: <MAIL001301bee440$fa803a60$5dfc34cc@sdln.net>
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On 11 Aug 1999 17:34:15 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: >Apparently some of the passwords that are in the master.passwd file are = >corrupted >When I try to change the password of one of our users this error = >appears: > >passwd: /etc/master.passwd: corrupted entry >passwd: /etc/master.passwd: unchanged > >I tried running vipw and it didn't catch any errors. >I also tried pwd_mkdb -c and no errors were discovered > >I am currently running freebsd 2.8 on a pentium II 233. Are you sure there are no errant spaces or control characters ? Try the following mkdir /root/rtmp chmod og-rwx /root/rtmp strings /etc/master.passwd > /root/rtmp/m.bak diff /root/rtmp/m.bak master.passwd (dont forget to get rid of the /root/rtmp/m.bak) Also, make sure there are not 2 entries for the same user If you try chfn user does it work ? ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) Sentex Communications Corp, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Who is this 'BSD', and why should we free him?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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