user account woes

[Jonathan Chen]

On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 02:55:47AM +0100, Richard Bradley wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a phantom user stuck in my system that I can neither use nor delete. I 
> have been playing with "Virtual Users" in "pure-ftpd" and it seems to have 
> messed things around.
[...]
> If I delete the entry from /etc/passwd, the cycle starts again.

Use "vipw" to edit the file and it will work.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>
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