That's it! You solved the problem! Maybe it was a bug in
passwd in only one past update install, though...probably fixed now.
Or maybe I did something to another package that rewrote /etc/passwd.
Who knows? We learned much, though. Thanks!
Art
On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 12:08:07PM +0100, L
I have encountered this problem about a year ago. It seems than passwd
only updates /etc/shadow when shadow passwording is enabled. If the root
password is disabled in /etc/passwd then running passwd won't help.
Try changing that line to
root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
^
(If this solve
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