Thanks for all the replies, however the suggestion - boot from CDROM was not an option as this is a production machine and we would have done this if possible. The solution to getting over the initial problem was to modify vi with suid on a machine with an nfs mount and copy this to nfs mounted file system, bad practice I know to have this writable by root but that's what the client needed. We could then edit the shadow file and get access. However, the question as to why the prompt came back immediately, rather than the pause is puzzling, as is why the restoring of a known good shadow file didn't allow login, I suspect password aging but maybe someone could expand on this. Regards Jonathan _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Fri Jun 1 10:44:59 2007
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