Re: passwd error

[hanasaki <hanasaki@hanaden.com>]

I once had this problem when I was using shadow passwds and manualled 
added/deleted a line from /etc/passwd.  Add the user back in manually to 
the passwd file and then use the command line tools to delete him/her

Kevin wrote:

> the other day i added a user, then removed it right after.  passwd
> worked when i added this user but after removing it, it stopped working.
>
> bash-2.00# passwd
> passwd: Critical error - immediate abort
>
> im not out of diskspace
> ii  login                       20000902-8                  System login tools
> im running unstable and 2.4.16
>
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root         1.7k Dec 29 15:36 /etc/passwd
> -rw-r-----    1 root     root         1.3k Dec 29 15:36 /etc/shadow
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