From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 27 23:53:43 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C682416A41F for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 23:53:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jarrod.harch@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DF8A43D49 for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 23:53:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jarrod.harch@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 13so149791nzp for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 16:53:42 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=ju99A59zWGomxaD0ZaNKFxiNLpHHfTMPTr1Mq6xfcmmigDqJ7lU2aMLPUNHeuSPfBWSq7Kn24N9ccbmzP+KVb3eSBzWGyS3JQommVmBhFImfxpDqzN/YpybFMIt3gqpA50jCqZxCQMC9UAOzaw+CpO0yWC32x0LpMoosObR+8v0= Received: by 10.54.2.74 with SMTP id 74mr2030359wrb; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 16:53:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.118.8 with HTTP; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 16:53:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 09:53:42 +1000 From: Jarrod Harch To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <44achyhb19.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <44achyhb19.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: user account changes lost on reboot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Jarrod Harch List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 23:53:44 -0000 Hi Lowell, yes the home directory is intact. I built and installed a new kernel, and after the reboot the accounts are now staying intact. So it's a mystery. Perhaps it was some unfinished sysinstall business, somehow overwriting the password database with the defaults? I'll reboot again tonight and check vipw, but hopefully the problem is now behind me. Thanks On 27 Sep 2005 09:53:38 -0400, Lowell Gilbert < freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> wrote: > > Jarrod Harch writes: > > Jarrod Harch writes: > > > Hi, I just setup a new 5.4 install, which went fairly well. I added > > some accounts - I used adduser to do one account, and logged on as the > > user OK. The other account was created when I installed gdm as the > > display manager. > > > > On rebooting the root password is missing, the user account I created > > is also gone (but the home directory and files are still there). gdm > > won't start, complaining that the gdm user doesn't exist. > > > > I recreated the user again but it vanished after the next boot. > > > > Does anyone know what might cause these account changes to be lost? > > Sorry if this has been answered already, I couldn't find anything on > > Google or mailing lists. > > This is pretty weird all right. Is the user's home directory still > present? If you run vipw(8), do you see the user there? >