[CentOS] Fix passwd/shadow/group files?

[Maciej Żenczykowski]

Had something similiar happen, if you take a look at your 
passwd/shadow/group files (which are likely .5 MB or more in size now)
you'll see tons of junk and lots of commas...
I think I ended up fixing this mostly via sed/grep and by hand...
Can't remember what caused it though...
Cheers,
MaZe.

On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Les Mikesell wrote:

> 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:
>
> #userdel irose
> hangs forever, syslog says:
> Jul 12 11:19:32 newftp userdel[30335]: delete user `irose'
> Jul 12 11:19:32 newftp userdel[30335]: delete `irose' from group `ftp'
> Jul 12 11:20:02 newftp last message repeated 373404 times
> Jul 12 11:21:04 newftp last message repeated 646597 times
> Jul 12 11:21:06 newftp last message repeated 29123 times
>
> 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....
>
>