F9: Manually editing passwd/group files causes rebooting to freeze up after udev....
Phil Meyer
pmeyer at themeyerfarm.com
Mon Oct 27 17:32:02 UTC 2008
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.
Did you forget gshadow? A common mistake for us old farts.
I always try to use usermod for that kind of stuff. Yes, I still use
vipw regularly, but I don't dare modify group info that way any more.
gshadow has bitten me more than once, hence the motivation to use
usermod more often.
Good Luck!
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