Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 11:43:27 -0700 From: Doug Silver <dsilver@urchin.com> To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem logging in after upgrade to 4.8-Stable Message-ID: <200304151143.05916.dsilver@urchin.com> In-Reply-To: <200304151132.51599.kstewart@owt.com> References: <200304151126.21202.dsilver@urchin.com> <200304151132.51599.kstewart@owt.com>
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On Tuesday 15 April 2003 11:32 am, Kent Stewart wrote: > On Tuesday 15 April 2003 11:26 am, Doug Silver wrote: > > I upgraded two 4.7 machines yesterday to 4.8-stable and now normal > > users can't login (both at the console and ssh). Root logs in okay. > > I created a new user and that works. However, the first server I > > upgraded to 4.8 hasn't had the same problems. I changed my personal > > password as root on one of the problem servers and then I was able to > > login. Did something change in the password algorithm to cause this > > to happen or is it something else? > > > > Any suggestions?? > > Can not say for sure but this usually happens when you don't pay > attention during mergemaster. If you let it update master.passwd, you > end up with a clean system and lose your users. > > Lemt I agree. Mergemaster did not remove the users, they are still in there. I even ran "/usr/sbin/pwd_mkdb -p /etc/master.passwd" just to see if that would solve it, but no luck. It seems very odd that root could login fine, but I couldn't, and then a new user could. -doug
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