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Subject: Re: password error
From: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To: Henry smith <getzz11@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.
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