On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 09:15:49AM +0100, Julian Coleman wrote:
> > Even after a reboot?  According to "man vipw", you need to remove
> > /tmp/ptmp, but rebooting normally clears the /tmp directory.  
> 
> I think you mean ``/etc/ptmp''.

Maybe vipw should include its pid in the password file (in /etc/ptmp)
- that way it could check that the old vipw process was still active.

	David

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