Re: [tlug] corrupt passwd db

[ayako kato <ayako.kato@example.com>]

On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Sven Simon wrote:

> The weird error passwd spits out is "no such user root", so I think the 
> db got corrupted
> and I try pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd with no success, eighter. I get 
> something like
> /etc/master.passwd wrong format or line too long...

then I guess vipw doesn't work either ?