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From: holtz@cascade.carleton.ca (Neal Holtz)
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Subject: Re: Corrupted /etc/passwd, /etc/org, /etc/group
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Date: 29 May 90 17:47:17 GMT
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Well, I found out what caused the problems with my corrupted
and missing /etc/{org,group,passwd} files -- many thanks to 
Betsy Minahan @ apollo for diagnosing it.

It seems that if there are exactly 16 entries in the equivalents of
/etc/group or /etc/passwd, some of the 3 are unreadable and others
are corrupted.  This is a problem that Apollo knows about and is
working on. 

The workaround is to use edrgy and add another account, or person,
or something, to bring the number over 16.  It seems I also had
to delete \`node_data/systmp/{.org,.group,.passwd} as well, so that
they could get recreated properly (thanks to Michael Zeleznik for that
last tip).