On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Marty wrote:
> Had a weird thing happen today to my 2.0.33 slackware box. The passwd file
> became passwd-
You probably always had that file but you never noticed it before. Adduser
etc use it to do seemingly atomic updates.
> Anyone have any idea why this may happen? Root is usually logged in on the
> unattended console, its possible some bad person used it...
So why would someone delete your password file? :-)
At least you have an almost up to date backup. Can you remember what the
last change was?
Charlie Brady
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