From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 9 00:37:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA15722 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 00:37:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA15667 for ; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 00:37:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA04123; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 00:37:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 00:37:01 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "Riley J. McIntire" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Passwords messed up during botched "upgrade" In-Reply-To: <199803082009.MAA11000@janeway.tgci.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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