Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!uci-ics!gateway From: wngai@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Wayne Ngai) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: /etc/passwd weirdness: HELP NEEDED!!! Message-ID: <26742448.24987@paris.ics.uci.edu> Date: 11 Jun 90 23:07:52 GMT Organization: UC Irvine Department of ICS Lines: 13 Yesterday, I put a "vi" job to the background on a RISC/os (system V unix) system. The terminal hung on me. I kill off the vi and the shell processor. Well, ever since after that, I can't login from that particular terminal. It gives me the login prompt, but when I enter the user name, the system tells me that "Sorry, can not find your password" or something close to that. Does anyone out there knows what's going on? And{what went wrong? And how should I fix it??? I'll take any suggestion!@!!!! Thanks for all your help in advance!! Wayne