Charles Twardy [2007-07-17  1:03 -0000]:
> Anyone have a fresh spare machine they can experiment on? Does this happen 
> from a fresh install?  If there's extraneous entries in the files?  If 
> you mix adduser and users-admin?  Or useradd?  

Doing these experiments, and finding which steps lead to that breakage
starting from a clean installation would be really appreciated,
indeed.

> I'd rather not muck around with my work system, as I'm not convinced I've 
> localized the damage.  My office might be able to dig an old machine out 
> of storage, but I'm swamped for the next week at least.

Using VirtualBox or VMWare with snapshots is an awesome and safe way
of trying it out, BTW.

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