Thanks to everyone who all replied; Steve Maher, Valeriy Glinskiy, dana@dtn.com, Ron Dinwiddle, and Ian Clements. A couple of people made suggestions about processes involving, NIS or NIS+. We are not using either here. A couple suggested using pwconv, which syncs the passwd file with the shadow file. I did try that and it failed also, but gave me a clue to what was wrong. The error returned for pwconv was: pwconv: ERROR bad entry or blank line at line 16 in /etc/passwd pwconv: Unexpected failure. Conversion not done. I had a blank line in the /etc/passwd file, which made it impossible for any user but root to change any passwords (except its root's own password) using the command line passwd command. _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Mon Sep 16 18:18:40 2002
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