On Sun, 20 Aug 2006, Andrew Pattison wrote:

> Thanks - I've done that. I had initially rewritten shadow with just a
> clone of one of the lines for one of the other users in the shadow file,
> namely:
> 
> root:NP:6445::::::
> 
> Which didn't work. My old shadow file had the following for root:

Not surprising.  Replace the NP with nothing, so that root's
entry looks like this:

        root::6445::::::

BTW, you really ought to learn vi.  IMHO, it's an essential UNIX skill!

HTH,

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