Re: [CentOS] Re: centos] Fix passwd/shadow/group files?

On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 15:03, R P Herrold wrote:

On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Les Mikesell wrote:

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I've been copying old passwd/shadow/group files from system to system for ages across different distributions/updates and would like to get them back in sync with each other so the system tools will work. Now they hang like:

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Is there some kind of test/diagnostic tool I can use to clean up the parts that don't match anymore? Preferably one that doesn't hang forever when something is missing....

pwck ?

Good call! That and the corresponding grpck found a couple of duplicate lines that seemed to be confusing things.