Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 09:29:30 -0800 (PST) From: Keith Woodworth <kwoody@citytel.net> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Passwd file oddity. Message-ID: <20050304091846.G68169@pop.citytel.net>
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I just setup a new box w/ FBSD 4.10 as we are slowly migrating from BSD/OS. Ive moved a few machines to FBSD and am now to the point I just copy the passwd and master.passwd files over from one machine to another for users. Our main mail server has been running 4.10 for 5 months now and copied the passwd files over from the mail server to the new machine. Same OS version, same ssh version ( I upgraded from the stock sshd that comes with 4.10) as well as a few other pieces of software. The wierd thing is that the new machine still seems to be trying to use the old passwd files. I try ssh'ing into the new machine using my current passwd and it fails. But I can login via my old passwd that I used to setup this machine. I went to setup a directory for a user, went to chown it to the user but get an error unknown user, even though the user is in passwd and master.passwd. It seems like the machine is using another passwd file. I have passwd/master.passwd in /etc. Is there somewhere else this info is hidden? The passwd file is a combo of standard crypt() and md5 hashes, which does not seem to bother the mailserver for various things, but seems to be having a problem on this new machine, though that should not be an issue as far as I can tell. Ive not run into this before and have copied the passwd files over from machine to machine before a few times with no problem. Anyone have an idea here? Thanks, Keith
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