Thanks to all that responded! I love this resource. My problem was that I was using vi to edit /etc/passwd, and /etc/group files. Normally, I've never had a problem. Another admin entered the picture after me, and said that he couldn't edit these files with usermod or admintool. Naturally, I turned to you guys for advice. The majority of you came up with grpck and pwck. I feel silly now, but at least I'm familiar with these commands, and they were successful in helping me diagnose the error. It was also suggested that I use vipw to edit these files if I have to do it by 'hand.' "What turned out to be the problem," you ask? My fellow admin added many accounts with illegal characters. Kudos to : Marcos Assis Dan L. Ostrom Ric Anderson Noel Hunt Buddy Lumpkin Julian Simpson Dan Astoorian Michael Auria __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/Received on Sun May 13 19:16:43 2001
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