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["darryl penny" <dpenny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, all.

For the list's info:

I was experiencing the following error when running Yast2 | Security and Users
| Edit and Create Users or Edit and Create Groups:

<original post>
The script halts with the following error:
"Cannot read system user settings"

This happened with a previous installation when I created users from the
command line and from within Yast2.
It has happened again, although I only use the command line and run
/sbin/SuSEconfig frequently.
</original post>

I would like to thank Carlos Robinson for his unselfish time and effort and
Jeff Hodge for their help. At the end of the day, I believe it was the
following that solved my problem:

<solution>
Saw the problem you were having with yast and the "Cannot read system
user setting" problem.  I had the same problem and was able to solve it
by checking /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow and removing any empty lines in
the file, including a double space at the end of the file.
Hope this helps. 
</solution>

It did.

REgards,
Darryl

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