From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 8 10:24:41 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B1F516A4CE for ; Tue, 8 Jun 2004 10:24:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ei.bzerk.org (ei.xs4all.nl [213.84.67.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 420E243D1F for ; Tue, 8 Jun 2004 10:24:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mail25@bzerk.org) Received: from ei.bzerk.org (BOFH@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ei.bzerk.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i58AQvxS006223; Tue, 8 Jun 2004 12:26:57 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mail25@bzerk.org) Received: (from bulk@localhost) by ei.bzerk.org (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i58AQvdv006222; Tue, 8 Jun 2004 12:26:57 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mail25@bzerk.org) Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 12:26:57 +0200 From: Ruben de Groot To: Haim Ashkenazi Message-ID: <20040608102657.GB4843@ei.bzerk.org> Mail-Followup-To: Ruben de Groot , Haim Ashkenazi , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.1 required=5.0 tests=FROM_ENDS_IN_NUMS, NO_EXPERIENCE autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Level: ** X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on ei.bzerk.org cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newbie question - users deleted after playing with sysinstall X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 10:24:41 -0000 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"