From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 22 16:52:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA19942 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 16:52:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA19935 for ; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 16:52:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA11789; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 16:51:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 16:51:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Spidey cc: Questions=answers Subject: Re: Forwarded mail.... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Spidey wrote: > > > > Try rebuilding the database by going into vipw, making a small change, > > > > putting it back, then save&quit. > > > > > > Tried it. Didn't work. 'zut'. > > > > Eh? In what way? Did it acutally rebuild the database? > > Sorry, it rebuilded, but I still can't change the password. Hm, I'd have to see it to figure out what's up. > > > > You have to reinstall the bin distribution. > > > > > > hmmm, I just upgraded. I did re-installed it in the make world process, > > > no? > > > > It may pick up the kerberized libs from the system. make world isn't > > insulated from it's environment. > > So how do I re-install the bin dist? mount /cdrom cd /cdrom/bin ./install.sh This basically reinstalls the base system, so all manner of nutty things could happen. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message