Date: Sun, 8 Mar 1998 12:09:37 +0000 From: "Riley J. McIntire" <chaos@tgci.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Passwords messed up during botched "upgrade" Message-ID: <199803082009.MAA11000@janeway.tgci.com>
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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. Anyway, I started getting weird error messages from sendmail (forgot to shut it down) and decided to quit and restore from backups. Problem with that was the backup was no good. :( The last good one was a couple weeks old. This did not seem much of a problem, I'd backed up /etc manually in a couple places, and /usr was intact, so I restored from the old tar file the files in root, /dev /bin, /lkm. 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! IIRC the username length changes from 2.2.2-R to 2.2.5-R? Is this causing the passwords to mess up? I assume some binaries were replaced with 2.2.5 versions and I didn't restore them? Which ones? Any suggestions on how to proceed? I'm thinking I'll use sysinstall from the boot floppy after restoring the system's group and master.passwd files (again) and proceed from there. Help and/or advice would be greatfully appreciated! Cheers, Riley To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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