On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 04:12:02PM -0600, Stefan Srdic wrote: > Last night when I attempted to change my root password passwd bunked out on > me. It crashed and I received the following message on the console: > > passwd: Critical error - immediate abort
Ooo...
> I thought that I could still use my old root password but cannot. I attempted
> to boot straight into a shell (init=/bin/sh) and manually expire my root
> password (so that I could change it on the next login) and ended up with the
> same results. I've also tried deleting the root passwd to see if I could then
> re-run passwd as root and change my passwd. No luck.
Have you used a rescue disk or installation CD?
> I can still log into my system as a normal user but cannot change any users
> passwords, I get the same error message as above.
Is your /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow have invalid entries or gotten
corrupted?
> Is passwd in Woody broken? How can I fix my broken root password without
> harming my system?
I hope not :(
-Anne
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