Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 12:26:57 +0200 From: Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org> To: Haim Ashkenazi <haim@babysnakes.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newbie question - users deleted after playing with sysinstall Message-ID: <20040608102657.GB4843@ei.bzerk.org> In-Reply-To: <pan.2004.06.08.08.38.12.292235@babysnakes.org> References: <pan.2004.06.08.08.38.12.292235@babysnakes.org>
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On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 11:38:13AM +0300, Haim Ashkenazi typed: > Hi > > I've just finished install FreeBSD 4.10 for the first time. I'm an > experienced linux user, but have no experience with FreeBSD. after a very > basic installation (only the first step, to get ssh) I've put the computer > at my ISP (of-course everything is blocked by a firewall) and continued > from home. I then installed some packages from the "Distribution" menu, > and "played" with the menus to see what I can configure. today, I couldn't > login to the computer (ssh), and when I checked (I had someone there who > logged in locally) I found out root has no password and the regular > user I created was gone. my question is: could something I've done in > sysinstall delete the user and root password? it's not likely that someone > broke into the system because it's completely blocked (only open from my > IP). Yes, that very likely. For instance, if you install the "bin" distribution more than once, it'll overwrite all files in /etc, including master.passwd each time you do that. Ruben > thanx > -- > Haim > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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