Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2023 22:51:13 +0200 From: Yuri <yuri@aetern.org> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing mail/mutt erased a user account Message-ID: <648cb930-7708-5032-74a8-471ae4353a6e@aetern.org> In-Reply-To: <ZEAdm4PjLcVUzi4y@www.zefox.net> References: <ZEAdm4PjLcVUzi4y@www.zefox.net>
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bob prohaska wrote: > It appears that installing mail/mutt erased a user account. Mutt > was compiled locally using poudriere and installed via pkg from the > local repository. After installation it was still possible to log > in as the regular user, but su asked "Who are you?" when invoked. Don't really see how that is possible, mutt doesn't seem to require/add any user accounts. > It developed that the original username was absent from /etc/passwd > and /etc/master.passwd, but the original home directory was present, > in this case /usr/home rather than /home. > > Re-running adduser as root allowed reinstatement of user login and > su now behaves normally. Adduser didn't report the account as existing, > so how login by ssh worked is mysterious and could be indication of > a recollection error on my part. It could still be present in /etc/pwd.db. > This was on a Pi2 v1.1 running > FreeBSD www.zefox.com 14.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 14.0-CURRENT #22 main-1d35493e46: Tue Apr 18 06:23:00 PDT 2023 bob@www.zefox.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/arm.armv7/sys/GENERIC arm > > In the meantime sendmail was reinstated as the MTA. That's been done > before with no ill effects, but it was a near-simultaneous change that > might have contributed to the confusion. > > I'll chalk this up to faulty wetware unless advised otherwise. My guess would be you somehow reverted passwd files to some default/backup, but didn't run pwd_mkdb? I just tried that adding test user using `pw useradd`, setting password for it, and then removed the line from both passwd files -- I was still able to login via ssh.
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