passwd file corrupted, solved, sorry

Efren Bravo efrenba at dhl.co.cu
Thu Oct 6 08:15:50 PDT 2005


On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 10:31:32AM -0500, Efren Bravo wrote:
> How can I check /etc/passwd file integrity because I think it is
> corrupted. When I try to execute vipw efrenba or root it doesn't works.

>Can you explain how vipw 'doesn't work'? What does it say? Is your
>$EDITOR variable set correctly?

>#vipw root  returns-> usage: vipw [-d directory]
>and ...
>#vipw -d /etc root  returns the same
>and ...
>#vipw root -d /etc  the same
>
>#echo $EDITOR
>vi

Sorry, I was confused, I referred to the pw instead of vipw...  
  
I already solved the problem


Thanks....





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