On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 01:51, kent emia wrote: > hi to all > > i edited the /etc/passwd by hand deleted one person with > a userID of 512 ... retaining the /etc/group 512 .... > > as i open the 'users and groups' under system settings i encounter 'The > user database cannot be read. Program will exit now.' You probably forgot to remove the corresponding line from /etc/shadow. Having mismatched lines in /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow confuses libuser. Cheers, Brent -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
