Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 00:37:01 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Riley J. McIntire" <chaos@tgci.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Passwords messed up during botched "upgrade" Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980309003643.3844w-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199803082009.MAA11000@janeway.tgci.com>
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On Sun, 8 Mar 1998, Riley J. McIntire wrote: > Well, I really screwed this one up. After getting errors installing > cvsup I decided to do an upgrade from 2.2.2-R to 2.2.5-R using > sysinstall. However, I ran it from /stand in multi-user mode as > opposed to either using the boot floppy or (I assume > this would work?) /stand/sysinstall in single user mode. [...] > But I could *not* log on! Users seemed to still be there but with > the wrong passwords. I restored master.passwd from /var/backups and > still had trouble. One or two users could log on, but a couple others > couldn't! You probably didn't reinstall the DES libs. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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