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On 4/22/2011 12:27 PM, Matthias Meyer wrote:
> Matthias Meyer wrote:
>
> As normal user "grep 1033 /etc/passwd" don't deliver a result. So I removed
> /etc/passwd.
> After this the misterious was removed too. It seems there was two files
> /etc/passwd on the same place. An old one (without the user 1033) and the
> actual one.
>
> Anyone knows how it is possible to have one file two times?

One of the is actually named passwd.exe ?

Just a thought ... Eliot Moss

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