Dear, "Is it crazy to propose someone opened /etc/passwd in vi, and saved it out without noticing this had happened?" i would like to add, MRTGs were not updated as my collique logged in... MRTGs worked fine after that.... again few hours he logge in and then su - but problem raised. Then please tell me spelling has changed.... Automatically:( Its is obvious that someone has changed it. Regards, Umair Shakil ETD On 9/12/07, Andy Green <andy at warmcat.com> wrote: > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070912/4c3097ce/attachment-0005.html>