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To: "Corey A. Christians" <cchrstns@sdln.net>
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Subject: Re: master.passwd corruption
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> "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


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