[lug] rebulding password files

[B O'Fallon]

Have you looked in the shadow password file and removed the user from there
also?

B O'Fallon

Michael Wegener wrote:

> How does one go about rebuilding corrupted password files? I have added
> a new user and set the password from root, but cannot login via telnet
> using that password, nor can I change the password as that user. The
> error I get is "Authentication server cannot retrieve authentication
> data." Oddly, as root, I get no such error. I have removed, obliterated
> all traces of this user and started over to no avail, nor do I know what
> caused the problem...
>
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