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Re: passwd segfaulting



On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 06:53:17AM -0600, whbell@bell-cs.com wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 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.

Have you tried the /usr/sbin/pwck command?  This command verifies the
integrity of the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files.  See the manpage for
more info.

-- 
Larry Holish
<ljholish@speakeasy.net>



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