From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 9 20:29:45 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7206116A421 for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2007 20:29:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mail-out4.apple.com (mail-out4.apple.com [17.254.13.23]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B4E113C447 for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2007 20:29:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from relay5.apple.com (relay5.apple.com [17.128.113.35]) by mail-out4.apple.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EADAB8DB0E; Mon, 9 Jul 2007 13:29:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay5.apple.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by relay5.apple.com (Symantec Mail Security) with ESMTP id 2BABF29C002; Mon, 9 Jul 2007 13:29:45 -0700 (PDT) X-AuditID: 11807123-a5020bb000000a55-5a-46929ab9bb0b Received: from [17.214.13.96] (int-si-a.apple.com [17.128.113.41]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by relay5.apple.com (Apple SCV relay) with ESMTP id 1344830400D; Mon, 9 Jul 2007 13:29:45 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <469299A6.4090006@boosten.org> References: <3A85D7EF44E1C744BF6434691F5659E9702CFD@www.fcimail.org> <20070709201750.GA66218@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> <469299A6.4090006@boosten.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <77FE6039-9C53-4579-BCD6-C7C7199D37A6@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Chuck Swiger Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 13:29:44 -0700 To: Peter Boosten X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: password failure- after mergmaster X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 20:29:45 -0000 On Jul 9, 2007, at 1:25 PM, Peter Boosten wrote: >> You let mergemaster clobber the password file. >> >> So in single user, "mount -a", then use vipw to recreate your >> accounts >> in the password database. On exit from vipw use passwd to set the >> passwords. > > Having read this I must admit that it's a complete mystery to me why > mergemaster would touch your password file at all... Because sometimes new versions of the OS come with new built-in user accounts, which need to be added to the existing passwd or groups databases somehow? -- -Chuck