Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 19:02:09 +1000 From: Tim Robbins <tjr@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Vallo Kallaste <vallo@estcard.ee> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Somethings still up with new NSS? Message-ID: <20030428190209.A21656@dilbert.robbins.dropbear.id.au> In-Reply-To: <20030428075916.GA53857@myhakas.internal>; from vallo@estcard.ee on Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 10:59:16AM %2B0300 References: <20030428075916.GA53857@myhakas.internal>
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On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 10:59:16AM +0300, Vallo Kallaste wrote: > Hi > > Some moments ago "lost" all the users on my remote home system. Not > a big problem, but here's what I did. Sources (and world) are from > Apr 26. Seems like a problem with new ondisk format of spwd.db or > similar. > Sequence which broke: > logged on remotely > su to root, changed inetd.conf file to enable ftpd, killall -HUP > inetd > back to normal user, changed my password with passwd(1) > tried to connect to ftpd, no luck > As I had ssh session still up, looked into logfiles and found that > root user does not exist, hmm.. tried to su -, same story, tried su > to normal user.. you got the idea. I had this happen to me. In my case, I changed my shell, logged out, then tried to log back in again. The console showed that sshd couldn't find my account, and I don't think it couldn find the privsep account either. I could not log in as root at the console either. I fixed the problem by booting single-user and re-running pwd_mkdb. The entries in master.passwd and passwd were correct, but I think that for some reason they weren't being read correctly from the database. Tim
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