You didn't by some strange quirk of fate manage to set the immutable
flag on the directory, did you?  Check using `ls -o'

On Sun, 18 Apr 1999, Josh Hope wrote:

> >/home is a mount, yes?  Unmount /home, then check the /home permissions
> >on the / partition.  How did you lose your password files?  Also, have
> >you run
> 
> No, /home is not mounted. It's off of the root drive.
> 
> >% /usr/sbin/pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd
> >or are you using /usr/sbin/vipw to regenerate your /etc/pwd.db & /etc/spwd.db
> >files?
> 
> I use vipw.
> 
> Thanks...
> 
> --Josh Hope
> 

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