I just checked all of the files in /etc and the passwd file hasn't been
changed since the 3rd of December.  The only files that have changed
recently were when I rebooted (mtab, modules.conf, ioctl.save, etc.).

Thanks
  -Scott


On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, JC wrote:

> hi,
>
> On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 11:25:47 -0700 (MST)
> "J. Scott Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >
> > I have been using Gentoo on my main machine for months with nary a
> > problem (Thanks to all involved, Gentoo is a great distribution)!  But
> > something odd started happening a few days ago.  When I was ssh'd into it
> > from my Mac OSX machine it would reset the connection.  And then it will
> > not allow me to reconnect.  At first I put it down to some oddity with OS
> > X (it's an old version anyway).
> >
> > But yesterday it started doing the same thing when I was logged in from
> > the OpenBSD machine:
> [...]
> > If I login as root they work fine.  I don't remember changing anything
> > configuration wise in the last few weeks.  The only new software I have
> > installed in the last month was Audacity a couple of weeks ago.  (Which I
> > never got to work.)  Could that have broken something and the problem
> > didn't show up until now?
>
> Can you have a look at your /etc/passwd file... maybe your userID have changed with 
> some bad etc-update ?
>
> Hope it helps !
>
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