From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 25 12:57:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA07933 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 25 Jun 1996 12:57:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from emcity.cs.twsu.edu (emcity.cs.twsu.edu [156.26.10.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA07584 for ; Tue, 25 Jun 1996 12:56:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: by emcity.cs.twsu.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA01250; Tue, 25 Jun 96 14:49:17 CDT Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 14:49:16 -0500 (CDT) From: john goerzen To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Plea for help! And panic & bug reports! In-Reply-To: <19371.835723373@time.cdrom.com> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Send one message to questions with your questions. Send another to bugs > with your bugs. :-) How about questions relating to bugs? :-) (as some of these were) > > Well, that will fix root's password, but what about everyone else's? > > *Nobody* can log in right now. The passwd and master.passwd files are > > intact. I did run pwd_mkdb. > > You truly must have not installed DES is my only thought. Do your passwords > start with `1$' characters? I will check for sure, but I believe that they don't. I am about 95% sure of that. I did select the DES distribution, then from the sub-menu, what I remember is picking the first and the last items. I don't know exactly what that translates into.... I assume I can grab the DES distribution from the master site, and unpack with some statement like ``cd /; cat ~/des.* | tar -zxvopf -'' or some such? Again, I don't recall the exact nature of the distribution -- been awhile since I've messed with that. And I'm about 45 minutes away from my FreeBSD machine right now :-( Thanks again for the help, John "Passwordless" Goerzen