From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 9 22:51:41 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 328DF16A46C for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2007 22:51:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.186]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A36D113C459 for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2007 22:51:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id b2so76268nfb for ; Mon, 09 Jul 2007 15:51:39 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=OF5f4E5NsF46BcmyMMxkbT6PmeFbyCW3+li2GfoH2A8SvPlls3DxOTsH37xU9pAYFtVpIXFXl0hYaQ3V/MO3y0SiMWFzizQPlmGRQ+V41EGXotadStoGeA19dG8SoxjiUgKovuXeiUZ/njdUvJj5rVSqjv7A0FAFMU+jki/Pi7w= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=YPwHor6ISBQwWLO3qrzSjlFC2Gbpu7ouyhCCwiTfEonns+eZmpG9Shhxy6wP5G8Wbs+YtpRWhtEH5ATdeXyUJWm1q1/cM1K895HrpcuR9VbXHXvVaFByAYvlDiFrU74j0vTJwK8SWVfNyr5wnDdfN1Cu20eDz+d9fZ57B6Tvhik= Received: by 10.82.186.5 with SMTP id j5mr9156392buf.1184021497948; Mon, 09 Jul 2007 15:51:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.187.6 with HTTP; Mon, 9 Jul 2007 15:51:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 17:51:37 -0500 From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: "Jean-Paul Natola" In-Reply-To: <3A85D7EF44E1C744BF6434691F5659E9702CFE@www.fcimail.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070709213038.GA66595@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> <3A85D7EF44E1C744BF6434691F5659E9702CFE@www.fcimail.org> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org, Peter Boosten 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 22:51:41 -0000 On 09/07/07, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 01:29:44PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: > > On Jul 9, 2007, at 1:25 PM, Peter Boosten wrote: > > > > > >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? > > Yes, exactly. Have to *merge* the changes into /etc/master.passwd rather > than brute force overwrite. > > Notice the difference from my first post in this thread, the file which > was clobbered is /etc/master.passwd, not just /etc/passwd which is a > dummy > > > I'M DONE now- now I cant even boot into safe or single user mode > > It keeps asking me to enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh > > I hit enter and I see the same message again , and again , and again and > again Try typing /rescue/sh -- --