Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!ucbvax!TRANSARC.COM!Craig_Everhart
From: Craig_Everhart@TRANSARC.COM
Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew
Subject: Re: White Pages Installation
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Date: 4 Jun 90 14:04:04 GMT
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Makeboth reads two password files: the one you pointed it at, and the
one it saved from last time as hist/oldpass.  I'd suspect that one of
these two files is bogus in one of the following ways:

	- contains a blank line
	- contains a malformatted first line that doesn't have exactly seven
fields separated by colons, with a non-null pw_name field

The complaint about the password files includes the last pw_name field
that was read, so that should give you a clue as to where to look.  In
this case, the pw_name field was null, suggesting to me that the
password file line was blank or started with a colon.

Might one of these things be the problem?

If you're still stumped, you can point me at your work area, if it's in
AFS, and I can take a look there.

		Craig