a very annoying pb with accounts

From: Grégory Nou (gregorynou_at_altern.org)
Date: 09/30/04

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    Hi everybody,

    Here is my (weird) problem ...
    I opened /etc/spwd.db with ee and exited (which was actually a very bad
    idea, even if I did not modified anything). At this time, everything was
    still ok.
    Then, a few minutes later, I tried to su ... Impossible : I get some
    weird error message telling me "su: who are you ?"
    Then I tried to log directly from the login shell on tty0 with my
    account... unknown user.
    I add a look at /etc/passwd : everything was correct.
    And when I tried to recreate my account : "user already exists"
    Then I reboot (the second very bad idea in the same day), and user "gdm"
    didn't exist anymore.
    Exactly as if I forgot to make mergemaster after upgrading, but with
    only one difference : I actually didn't made a upgrade.
    So now the situation is : I can only access with root account.
    Does someone know when I did a mistake ? and does someone knows how to
    fix it ? Should I delete account in /etc/passwd and create them again ?
    I had this idea, but I didn't want to make another stupid thing today :)
    Thanks a lot 

    -- 
Gregory Nou
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