From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jun 5 6:53:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from shift-f1.com (SHIFT-F1.COM [208.152.204.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8153214CE1 for ; Sat, 5 Jun 1999 06:53:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shashi@shift-f1.com) Received: (from shashi) by shift-f1.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA29297; Sat, 5 Jun 1999 08:48:19 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <19990605094819.A29269@WEBSI.com> Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1999 09:48:19 -0400 From: Shashi Joshi To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.7 -> 3.2 STABLE upgrade changes root password??? References: <37591AC9.B7C29EB2@math.missouri.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <37591AC9.B7C29EB2@math.missouri.edu>; from Stephen Montgomery-Smith on Sat, Jun 05, 1999 at 07:40:41AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Stephen Montgomery-Smith worked magic with the keyboard on Sat, Jun 05, 1999 at 07:40:41AM -0500: > Adam Szilveszter wrote: > > > > > > 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. > > Can't you boot into single user mode and correct the passwords that way? > When you get that message "booting in ... seconds" press a key, then type > boot -s. I tried that but it has the root partition in read only mode :-(( > I recall having a similar problem when upgrading. I think it was because > the password authentication method changed, so the encrypted passwords > were the same, but they meant something entirely different. I caught it > before rebooting - now after any major change to the OS or password file, > I always test it first before rebooting. Another explanation that may be correct is the shell of root. I had /bin/tcsh as the default shell for all accounts. I checked that the aout -> elf did NOT generate a new tcsh (since it is a port) so that is sitting in the aout format. I am doing a "UPGRADE" from the 2.2.7 CD of the "USER" (binaries and doc only) components, and hopefully that will succeed. Thanks for your input. -- 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