Date: 04 Jan 2002 00:31:28 -0500 From: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Henry smith <getzz11@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: password error Message-ID: <1010122288.86152.57.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <20020104052930.88720.qmail@web21103.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20020104052930.88720.qmail@web21103.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Fri, 2002-01-04 at 00:29, Henry smith wrote: > > there was an error message: > > line too long > /etc/master.passwd: Inappropriate file type or format Looks like your master.passwd file is corrupt. You didn't copy /etc/passwd to /etc/master.passwd, did you? If so, that's bad. You can always take the default master.passwd, then manually merge back your changes to it. Joe > > --- Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> wrote: > > On Thu, 2002-01-03 at 23:46, Henry smith wrote: > > > I just upgraded from FreBSD4.3-RELEASE to > > > FreeBSD4.5-PRE > > > > Sounds like you forgot to run mergemaster after > > doing an installworld. > > You should be able to fix this by running pwd_mkdb. > > You should probably > > also run mergemaster also to merge in config changes > > between 4.3 and > > 4.5-PRE. > > > > Joe > > > > > > > > When I try to login, there was an error: > > > > > > Login: root > > > /etc/spwd.db: Inappropriate file type or format > > > > > > Anybody know what should I do to fix this problem > > ? > > > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > > Do You Yahoo!? > > > Send your FREE holiday greetings online! > > > http://greetings.yahoo.com > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body > > of the message > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Send your FREE holiday greetings online! > http://greetings.yahoo.com > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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