Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 13:49:45 +0300 From: Haim Ashkenazi <haim@babysnakes.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newbie question - users deleted after playing with sysinstall Message-ID: <pan.2004.06.08.10.49.37.860009@babysnakes.org> References: <pan.2004.06.08.08.38.12.292235@babysnakes.org> <20040608102657.GB4843@ei.bzerk.org>
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On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 12:26:57 +0200, Ruben de Groot wrote: > 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. yep, that's exactly what I did. well, I just wanted to be sure that nobody broke into my system. thanx -- Haim
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