From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 17 05:57:28 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B673B16A4CE for ; Wed, 17 Mar 2004 05:57:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from mta07-svc.ntlworld.com (mta07-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.47]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31D6843D48 for ; Wed, 17 Mar 2004 05:57:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@spooty.net) Received: from [80.1.84.24] by mta07-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.37 201-229-121-137-20020806) with ESMTP id <20040317135730.VMRH325.mta07-svc.ntlworld.com@[80.1.84.24]>; Wed, 17 Mar 2004 13:57:30 +0000 From: Ben Paley To: Andrew Thompson Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 13:56:54 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <200403170805.24990.ben@spooty.net> <20040317090619.GA36914@kate.fud.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <20040317090619.GA36914@kate.fud.org.nz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200403171356.54994.ben@spooty.net> cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: ebola@psychoholics.org Subject: Re: ok, I give in - proxy user X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 13:57:28 -0000 On Wednesday 17 March 2004 9:06 am, Andrew Thompson wrote: > Hi Ben, > > The data is actually stored in database files (for quick lookup), and it > looks like yours is out of sync. > > Run the following to correct it. > > pwd_mkdb -p /etc/master.passwd Thanks all... obvious really. But it was a long night of panics (the kernel *and* me) and this was the last straw... Thanks again, Ben