I figured it out. I had to run "sync" to flush the changes to the disk.
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, William T Wilson wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > ok, that let me in, but when I rebooted the changes were not saved to the
> > drive. is there a command I have run after I change the /etc/passwd file?
>
> No. Are you sure you saved the file in whatever editor you used?
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