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Re: Re : Re: Re : RE: please help me: problems for users!



patrick.richard@lemel.fr (Patrick RICHARD) writes:

> Hi,
> 
> The files /etc/group and etc/passwd are OK. I use the shadow mode (password 
> field = x in the file /etc/passwd).

OK then, what are the permissions of the files?  Mine are:

$ ls -l /etc/passwd /etc/shadow /etc/group
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root          577 Nov 26 22:59 /etc/group
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root         1434 Aug  9 22:50 /etc/passwd
-rw-r-----   1 root     shadow        957 Jan 25  1998 /etc/shadow

If this doesn't help, try something like:

$ strace -o vi.log -e file vi temp

and quit after getting the error?  This will list the errors (look for 
E????? symbols in the output) that vi gets accessing the files.

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