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ttoirrah

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Registered: 2015-01-29

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/etc/gshadow - proc:!:: or proc::: ?

Upgrading shadow, I was warned to run grpck, which revealed there to be two proc entries in /etc/gshadow:

proc:::

and later:

proc:!::

grpck offers to delete the first, but is that the right choice?

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jasonwryan

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Registered: 2009-05-09

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Re: /etc/gshadow - proc:!:: or proc::: ?

Yes.

Not an Installation issue, moving to NC

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nstgc

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Registered: 2014-03-17

Posts: 393

Re: /etc/gshadow - proc:!:: or proc::: ?

ttoirrah, how did you end up with two such entries? Did you just copy all of pacnew into gshadow? You did to go through line by line with something like pacdiff.

ttoirrah

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Registered: 2015-01-29

Posts: 52

Re: /etc/gshadow - proc:!:: or proc::: ?

nstgc, my /etc/gshadow was entirely automatically generated by Arch.