On October 23, 2003, kent emia wrote: > On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 04:18, Brent Fox wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 01:51, kent emia wrote: > > > 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 .... Just my $.02 but you'd be better off using userdel or if you must hand edit use vipw. Mark -- Mark Frank mark at mark-and-erika dot com In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is. -Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
