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["Sergey A. Lipnevich" <sergey AT sourcemage.org>]

Try reverting to code for 5.2.1,  including  the patch (if building from 
source and not doing dispel -d), and see if this helps. Apparently the 
patch I tried to redo for 5.3 is not good. I didn't find any patches on 
the 'net for 5.3.
Are you using PAM?

Treeve Jelbert wrote:
> I have just encountered a problem when starting a service which worked 
> previously.
>
> I eventually traced it to 
>
> $ su firebird
> su: user firebird does not exist
>
>
>  but
> $grep "firebird" /etc/*
> /etc/group:firebird:x:84:treeve
> /etc/passwd:firebird:x:84:84:::
> /etc/shadow:firebird:!:12992:0:99999:7:::
>
> # useradd -u 84 firebird
> useradd: user firebird exists
>
>
> there appears to be a problem with su from coreutils-5.3.0
>
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