F9: Manually editing passwd/group files causes rebooting to freeze up after udev....

[Dan Thurman]

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Dan Thurman wrote:
>
>   
>> I was manually changing the /etc/passwd and /etc/group
>> file since my users were incorrectly assigned UID/GIDs,
>> I manually corrected the UID/GID in /home for each user,
>> rebooted and noticed that I would get a hang just after
>> udev.
>>     
>
> Aren't we meant to use vipw and vigr to edit these files?
> On editing from vigr one is asked to run "vigr -s"
> to edit the shadow file.
>
>   
Interesting!  I had NO IDEA if this is the case, being a user of
older Unix systems.  Thanks for the tip, I'll know better now!

Dan