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hi,

On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 11:45:58AM +0200, grifo wrote:
> i am experience a little trouble with my NetBSD system: after updated
> to 2.0F i've probably committed a mistake while etcupdating the /etc
> folder and now it is not possible to change users information neither
> with passwd, usermod, useradd nor by editing directly
> /etc/master.passwd.

never edit master.passwd directly.

> e.g. while trying to change root passwd (that now is empty):
> # passwd
> Changing local password for root.
> New password:
> Retype new password:
> passwd: /etc/master.passwd: entry inconsistent
> passwd: /etc/master.passwd: unchanged
>=20
> permissions are ok:
> -rw-------  1 root  wheel  957 Jun  2 20:43 /etc/master.passwd
>=20
> but that makes me think is the presence of the /etc/passwd file,
> that i installed with my last world update...
>=20
> any suggestions for solving this trouble will be appreciated.

pwd_mkdb(8)
vipw(8)


regards,

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