Tonight I tried to go into system-config-users to add groups to my user account I got the message: The user database cannot be read. This problem is most likely caused by a mismatch in /etc/password and /etc/shadow. My question is WHY and how do I CORRECT it? FC3t2 kernel 2.6.8-1.541smp KDE3.3 I want to do this so I can add groups to my user account so I can add devices to my user desktop. TIA, Tom -- Tom Taylor registered linux user #263467