On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 10:42:53AM +0800, paragasu <paragasu@gmail.com> was heard to say: > can you give the output of cat > /etc/group Actually, you don't want to do that since it will erase your group file! I think that the contents of /etc/group and /etc/nsswitch.conf, both when the system is working and when it's "broken", would be interesting, though. Daniel