From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 18 15:13:46 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 0435737B401 for ; Fri, 18 Apr 2003 15:13:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp802.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp802.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.168.181]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 74D5543FD7 for ; Fri, 18 Apr 2003 15:13:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from antonzav@pacbell.net) Received: from adsl-64-160-50-183.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net (HELO travel) (antonzav@pacbell.net@64.160.50.183 with login) by smtp-sbc-v1.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 18 Apr 2003 22:13:45 -0000 From: "Anton Zavrin" To: "'Simon L. Nielsen'" Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 15:12:39 -0700 Message-ID: <00d401c305f7$a079be60$0200a8c0@travel> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 In-Reply-To: <20030418213944.GC385@nitro.dk> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4920.2300 cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Please help, updated to 4.8 serious issues 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: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 22:13:46 -0000 Thank you very kindly all, Yes, I think I messed up my password database files with mergemaster, I re-generated passwd file and now I can actually "finger" on root ;-). Building world again, gonna take awhile, hope everything will be OK Thank you very much again! Best Regards, Anton -----Original Message----- From: Simon L. Nielsen [mailto:simon@nitro.dk] Sent: Friday, April 18, 2003 2:40 PM To: Anton Zavrin Cc: 'Bill Moran'; freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Please help, updated to 4.8 serious issues On 2003.04.18 14:26:15 -0700, Anton Zavrin wrote: > Pam_authontication: permission denied. > So, I dropped back to single user mode and repeated the whole process > all over again, including cvsup, when everything was almost done, I got > this weird error: > http://community.webshots.com/photo/69996248/69996266FYKaAY >From that screenshot it I would guess that your password file or database are corrupted. Try having a look at /etc/passwd and /etc/master.passwd and check if they look correct. If they do try regenerating your password database with pwd_mkdb. -- Simon L. Nielsen