On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 04:18, Brent Fox wrote: > 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. hey that worked ... yah i forgot deleting it in the /etc/shadow .... thanks for the info .... > > > Cheers, > Brent -- kent emia <kent-cdr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
