Thanks and one more question.

[Brian Chapman]

In article <1386 at igloo.UUCP> vikki at igloo.UUCP (Vikki Reid) writes:

>A few days before I came on board the system "crashed".
> [...] no one could login to the system.
>Someone got into the system and removed all the passwords from /etc/passwd
>and users can now login.  Any attempt to execute /bin/passwd prints out:

>#_200_# passwd vikki
>Enter new password (minimum of 5 characters)
>Please use a combination of upper and lowercase letters and numbers.
>#_201_#

It sounds to me like your /dev/tty node is either gone
or not properly accessible.

'login', 'passwd', 'su', sometimes 'more' all open /dev/tty
to get keyboard input and prevent having input redirected
to them.  Login doesn't need to open /dev/tty if there
is not passwd required.

Good luck.
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Brian Chapman		uunet!sco!chapman	SCO UNIX 3.2 Development