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Date:      Mon, 26 Sep 2005 13:17:51 +1000
From:      Jarrod Harch <jarrod.harch@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   user account changes lost on reboot
Message-ID:  <f76ea10d05092520176ee1032e@mail.gmail.com>

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Hi, I just setup a new 5.4 install, which went fairly well. I added some
accounts - I used
adduser to do one account, and logged on as the user OK. The other account
was
created when I installed gdm as the display manager.

On rebooting the root password is missing, the user account I created is
also gone (but
the home directory and files are still there). gdm won't start, complaining
that the gdm
user doesn't exist.

I recreated the user again but it vanished after the next boot.

Does anyone know what might cause these account changes to be lost? Sorry i=
f
this has
been answered already, I couldn't find anything on Google or mailing lists.

Thanks
Jarrod



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