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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!hermes.bouw.tno.nl!walter From: walter@hermes.bouw.tno.nl (Walter Lohman) Subject: [386bsd] re: messed .. DES Message-ID: <1993Oct22.153920.7243@hermes.bouw.tno.nl> Organization: TNO Building and Construction Research X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL0] Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1993 15:39:20 GMT Lines: 8 Did you rebuild the password database after changing the password for root? try setting the passwd for root with your new passwd prg from the securedist. eg. passwd root Else try editting the passwd file with vipw instead of using vi. Good luck, Walter