Re: [CentOS] Very strange problem i have faced in my 2 years carrier

Somebody in the thread at some point said:

the spelling of root was changed from "root" to "R00t". i changed to "root" and every thing worked.

I want to ask, what is this, this doesnot seem a garbage value or nor corruption of passwd file. only showing someone changes this. Here we have bank private network, only two people have access for it me and another guy.

what are your opinions??????

I have seen vi do this action when it didn't understand a keycode on teh terminal you are using properly... change the case of a few letters next to the cursor. But IIRC that was busybox vi.

Is it crazy to propose someone opened /etc/passwd in vi, and saved it out without noticing this had happened?

-Andy