Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 18:54:41 -0700 From: Doug <Doug@gorean.org> To: "Corey A. Christians" <cchrstns@sdln.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: master.passwd corruption Message-ID: <37B22961.C3ED2650@gorean.org> References: <001301bee440$fa803a60$5dfc34cc@sdln.net>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> "Corey A. Christians" 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. > > If you have any insight into this problem please help. There was a discussion about this problem recently. IIRC it boiled down to, 1) You can't have blank lines or comments in the master.passwd file for older releases. 2) This over-pickiness is fixed in -current, and maybe 3.2-stable as well. HTH, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?37B22961.C3ED2650>