davidb@inmos.co.uk (David Boreham) (05/29/90)
Wow ! This happened to me too. No idea why. I just copied /etc/passwd from another machine and rebooted. /etc/group was screwed up also. In common with ccs.carleton.ca, I don't think that I was doing anything wrong at the time. I just put it down to cosmic ray trouble and the fact that when your OS is larger than 256K you never know if it really works :) (Using SR10.1). David Boreham, INMOS Limited | mail(uk): davidb@inmos.co.uk or ukc!inmos!davidb Bristol, England | (us): uunet!inmos.com!davidb +44 454 616616 ex 547 | Internet: davidb@inmos.com