Hello,
I recently sent the following message :
>
> Hello Managers,
>
>
> We are having problems with the passwd file. This passwd command works but
> when users logout and login again, they can not login until the passwd
> command has been run again by root.
>
> On a couple of instances the passwd command failed and reported an error
> message that the passwd hash table can not be updated run 'mkpasswd
passwd'.
> So I ran the 'mkpasswd /etc/passwd' command and recieve the error message
> that the password file has
>
> 332 password entries, maximum length 88
>
>
> Does anyone know what this means.
>
> Any help would be appreciated,
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I answer is , that this is not an error message. Sorry for the trouble.
Thanks to those who replied:
Michael R. Kline
Nicholas Vargish
Michael Mathews
Donald L. Ritchey
Thanks,
Jeff
Received on Tue Aug 15 1995 - 00:25:21 NZST