Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 16:12:47 -1000 (HST) From: Vincent Poy <vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> To: <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: src/usr.bin/passwd in recent -current seems to hang machine and corrupts passwd database files Message-ID: <20010725161133.I50475-100000@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET>
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/usr/bin/passwd in the latest -current world build with kernel
build seems to do the following:
# passwd joeuser
Changing local password for joeuser.
New password:
Retype new password:
passwd: updating the database...
passwd: done
#
and 5 seconds later, the machine would just freeze solid. With
yesterday's buildworld, it would do the same thing except
it would panic the kernel and go into the db> prompt. So
the only way is to hard reboot which will goto single user mode
where fsck would have to be done and then somehow the passwd
database is corrupted which requires copying master.passwd.bak
from /var/backups to /etc/master.passwd and then run and exit
vipw with :wq to rebuild the passwd database. Otherwise, all
users besides root will be able to logon and /etc/passwd and
/etc/master.passwd will be a bunch of garbled characters.
vipw works fine when manually entering the encrypted passwd as
a cut and paste from another system. It isn't a hardware issue
since I have tried everything from make -j 4 buildworld to
running dnetc to even running cpuburn from the /usr/ports/misc
collection which had no effect. Only when running passwd would
it hang the machine solid 5 seconds later each time and corrupt
the password database. The 6/18/2001 current binary snapshot
from current.freebsd.org worked without any problems.
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