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Authored by: bhines on Apr 30, '02 06:35:56AM

This was fixed, but it didn't make it into the first stable distro for .4.

Several ways to fix it now:

Type
sudo dpkg --remove --force-depends passwd
to get rid of your passwd (ignoring dependencies)

Then, either:
- fink selfupdate-cvs; fink install passwd - will get and reinstall the fixed passwd pkg.
- Enable unstable tree and reinstall passwd. (fixed version was accidentally in unstable for the original .40 dist)
- sudo apt-get install passwd - will install the fixed passwd pkg from bindist.



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Didn't work for me
Authored by: bjn on Apr 30, '02 09:23:27AM

I did the "dpkg --remove" followed by the "apt-get install passwd", and it didn't change any of the home directories, they were all still / -- I had to follow the niutil instructions above to get the home directories changed.



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Didn't work for me
Authored by: bhines on May 01, '02 07:19:08PM

hmm, you might have to "fink rebuild passwd" before reinstalling. (after selfupdating!)



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