On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Marc Coevoet wrote:

> I defined a new user with vipw, could login on it, but
> after rebooting  __NO__  user works...
> (and I defined at least 3 users without password...)

What shell are you giving them? Is it valid? What error are you getting?

> I rebooted single user, and used pwd_mkdb to clean it
> up, but now, "vipw" says it is locked.
> How can I delete the lock (file)?
> 
> Yeah, I found it, just delete the /etc/ptmp file,
> which seems to be a copy of /etc/master.passwd.
> 
> 
> BTW, I've remarked pppd doesn't work fine with appletalk.

True. I'm not aware of a standard for Appletalk-over-ppp (the main problem
being that to do it right, you'd have to teach netatalk how to be a half
router. :-(

Take care,

Bill