On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 06:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, Hi,
> I am running up to date woody on a small firewall box. I have had this > problem > for some time where passwd ALWAYS segfaults when it is called. I have > searched > archives, looked at the /etc/passwd to see if it may be corrupt. I have > password shadowing turned on and cannot find any problems in the shadow files. > > Please help me. I need some ideas on were to look next for this problem. I recently had the same problem after editing /etc/passwd manually. It turns out I had forgotten a ":" after an empty gecos field. Check carefully if all the lines are correct. What does 'getent passwd' says ? What does 'strace passwd' says ? -- Eric-Olivier Lamey
