Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1999 08:47:22 +0200 (CEST) From: Adam Szilveszter <sziszi@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> To: Shashi Joshi <shashi@WEBSI.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Jonathan Delgado <delgado@cvrc-taco.mgh.harvard.edu> Subject: Re: 2.2.7 -> 3.2 STABLE upgrade changes root password??? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.990605083901.13810A-100000@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> In-Reply-To: <19990604235414.A24459@WEBSI.com>
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Hi! > retrospect). I was able to do the compile of the aout to elf upgrade but am > facing a strange problem. > > To recap, I had a 2.2.7-STABLE and was upgrading to a 3.2-STABLE. I did a > cvsup and got all the new source. > > The problem now is that at login prompt I am trying the root login and the > passwd seems to have changed!!! I tried a userid/passwd other than root > too. None works. I am not able to log in or look at the > passwd file. At boot time just before the first login: prompt I do see some > missing /usr/.../ld.so ?? That is all. As for the missing linker, I do not know. But when I upgraded from 3.1-RELEASE to -STABLE, the same error occured with passwords. (Note, that it did not reoccur when upgrading to 3.2-RELEASE, though.) It looks that the passwd file was somehow tampered with because all accounts were deleted, and reset, i.e. root existed but with no password. So I could log in through that and recreate the users. Maybe it will work for you. It was not fun, though. I hope someone might have found a better way. Since the problem did not come up any more, I was not thinking of it lately. Reinstalling from 2.2.X CD-s is not a good idea IMHO, because that in effect undoes the changes you made... > > Thanks in advance for your patience. (CC me on the reply) > > -- > Shashi Joshi > _____________________________________________________________________ > __o o__ o__ o__ o__ There's one > _ \<._ _.>/ _ _.>/ _ _.>/ _ _.>/ _ in every > (_)/ (_) (_) \(_) (_) \(_) (_) \(_) (_) \(_) crowd... > _____________________________________________________________________ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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