On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 15:03, R P Herrold wrote: > 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: > > > 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. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx