Date: 16 May 2002 07:25:27 -0700 From: Chip Wiegand <chip@wiegand.org> To: Mike Hoskins <mike@adept.org> Cc: FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: makeworld problem - my first attempt at this Message-ID: <1021559128.14040.15.camel@chip3.wiegand.org> In-Reply-To: <20020516003220.E53036-100000@snafu.adept.org> References: <20020516003220.E53036-100000@snafu.adept.org>
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On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 01:36, Mike Hoskins wrote: > On 15 May 2002, Chip Wiegand wrote: > > > in as regular user, but there is no root account. I checked /etc/passed > > file and in fact it has only one entry - the user account I had just > > added in sysinstall. There should be quite a few other accounts in > > there. So it appears I still need to do something to get that up to > > snuff, but what? Sorry I don't recall the questions from mergemaster -p, > > it's late and I need to get to bed. :) > > In the future, take a nap before running mergemaster... Or drink a pot of > coffee. ;) I've never been so unfortuneate to have this bad of luck with > mergemaster... It sounds like it somehow left you with no passwd file. > (I thought the worst case would be a default passwd file - local > accounts...) Yep, the passwd and master.passwd were both empty, very unusual. I must have made a mistake with mergemaster somehow. > Grab a template from /usr/src/etc/master.passwd, merge your local account, > and you should be good to go. (Default group, etc. files are there too.) I found that and did a pwd_pkdb and now it is working fine. This has been soooo much fun I might just have to wipe out that box and do it again. Only this time I'll keep decent notes. Regards, Chip > Later, > -Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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