[lug] rebulding password files

[D. Stimits]

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...

Did you also change /etc/shadow? Both need to work together if you have
shadowing on, and most distributions seem to have this by default these
days.

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