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Re: passwd segfaulting



On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 06:53, whbell@bell-cs.com wrote:
> Hello,

  Hi,

> I am running up to date woody on a small firewall box.  I have had this problem 
> for some time where passwd ALWAYS segfaults when it is called.  I have searched 
> archives, looked at the /etc/passwd to see if it may be corrupt.  I have 
> password shadowing turned on and cannot find any problems in the shadow files.
> 
> Please help me.  I need some ideas on were to look next for this problem.

  I recently had the same problem after editing /etc/passwd manually. It
  turns out I had forgotten a ":" after an empty gecos field. Check
  carefully if all the lines are correct.
  What does 'getent passwd' says ? What does 'strace passwd' says ?

-- 
Eric-Olivier Lamey



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