From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 12 09:15:55 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C12637B404 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2003 09:15:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from c011.snv.cp.net (h002.c011.snv.cp.net [209.228.34.215]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 25AB443FBF for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2003 09:15:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doug@allensystemconsultants.com) Received: (cpmta 15162 invoked from network); 12 Aug 2003 09:15:53 -0700 Received: from 209.228.34.221 (HELO mail.allensystemconsultants.com.criticalpath.net) by smtp.allensystemconsultants.com (209.228.34.215) with SMTP; 12 Aug 2003 09:15:53 -0700 X-Sent: 12 Aug 2003 16:15:53 GMT Received: from [209.175.240.50] by mail.allensystemconsultants.com with HTTP; Tue, 12 Aug 2003 09:15:52 -0700 (PDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 To: thomas@FreeBSD.ORG From: doug@allensystemconsultants.com X-Sent-From: doug@allensystemconsultants.com Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 09:15:52 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: Web Mail 5.5.0-3_sol28 Message-Id: <20030812091553.29778.h008.c011.wm@mail.allensystemconsultants.com.criticalpath.net> cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: password file recovery question X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 16:15:55 -0000 Thomas, > What do you mean by 'scrambled'? Did you run 'pwd_mkdb -p > /etc/master.passwd' after copying the file? By scrambled, I mean that none of the passwords in the old file seemed to work, excpet the few mention in the original note. I think I ran pwd_mkdb -p /etc/master.passwd after the copy, but I'm not absolutely certain. If I forgot, that would probably explain the problem. If I forgot, I think I need to go sit in the corner . Thanks for the quick response. If I ran it know will it mess up any of the passwords that I've already changed, thanks to early arriving users? I don't want to mess up their passwords again. Doug Doug Allen Allen System Consultants