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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