I carefully merge my password and groups files... :)As I reported earlier, I forgot the -p option for tar, so it didn't set any [SG]uid permission bits.
On Sat, 18 Oct 2014, scar wrote:
Paul Goyette wrote on 10/18/2014 03:14 AM:run etcupdate <snip> su: Sorry: authentication errorwell i know i was asked if i wanted to update /etc/passwd which would have messed up my users and passwords, and there was one other file too that looked like it contained some auth info, which i didn't update. are you sure you didn't update those files during etcupdate?
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