[clue-tech] should'a seen that coming...

[Jed S. Baer]

On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:53:13 -0600
David L. Willson wrote:

> I type 'sudo vipw' to change my username, the system prompts me that I
> probably want to 'sudo vipw -s' to make /etc/shadow consistent
> with /etc/passwd, so I do... or rather, I don't, because now my username
> in one is different than in the other, so I can't authenticate any more.
> Rats...  Sadly, this is a VMware Server, so I ~really~ don't want to
> have to reboot to recovery mode.  Any idears?

Hmm. pwconv?