From owner-freebsd-isp Wed May 19 6:25: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from loki.intrepid.net (intrepid.net [204.71.127.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B71EB152E5 for ; Wed, 19 May 1999 06:24:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@loki.intrepid.net) Received: (from mark@localhost) by loki.intrepid.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA02381; Wed, 19 May 1999 09:24:44 -0400 Message-ID: <19990519092444.A981@intrepid.net> Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 09:24:44 -0400 From: Mark Conway Wirt To: Benoit Rossier , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can't change user's password References: <3.0.1.32.19990519095918.00a10f08@nocnoc.mcnet.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2 In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19990519095918.00a10f08@nocnoc.mcnet.ch>; from Benoit Rossier on Wed, May 19, 1999 at 09:59:18AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 09:59:18AM +0200, Benoit Rossier wrote: > Hello, > > We can't change the password for some users. passwd says: > > root@myserver:~>passwd conseisw > Changing local password for conseisw. > New password: > Retype new password: > passwd: /etc/master.passwd: corrupted entry > passwd: /etc/master.passwd: unchanged > root@myserver:~> > > This problem appears only with the last (maybe 200) users in master.passwd Go into master.passwd with your favorite editor and find the line that's giving you problems. Then rebuild the hashed database and the /etc/passwd file with pwd_mkdb(8). --Mark -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message