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.
Aren't we meant to use vipw and vigr to edit these files?
On editing from vigr one is asked to run "vigr -s"
to edit the shadow file.
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