Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!sco!chapman
From: chapman@sco.COM (Brian Chapman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Thanks and one more question.
Keywords: Things don't work after the crash.
Message-ID: <634@sysco>
Date: 14 Jan 89 10:40:27 GMT
References: <1386@igloo.UUCP>
Reply-To: chapman@sco.COM (Brian Chapman)
Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
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In article <1386@igloo.UUCP> vikki@igloo.UUCP (Vikki Reid) writes:

>A few days before I came on board the system "crashed".
> [...] no one could login to the system.
>Someone got into the system and removed all the passwords from /etc/passwd
>and users can now login.  Any attempt to execute /bin/passwd prints out:

>#_200_# passwd vikki
>Enter new password (minimum of 5 characters)
>Please use a combination of upper and lowercase letters and numbers.
>#_201_#

It sounds to me like your /dev/tty node is either gone
or not properly accessible.

'login', 'passwd', 'su', sometimes 'more' all open /dev/tty
to get keyboard input and prevent having input redirected
to them.  Login doesn't need to open /dev/tty if there
is not passwd required.

Good luck.
-- 
	Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
Brian Chapman		uunet!sco!chapman	SCO UNIX 3.2 Development