Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2018 15:09:26 -0700 From: bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net> To: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> Cc: Pete Wright <pete@nomadlogic.org>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net> Subject: Re: ntpd as ntpd user question Message-ID: <20180721220925.GA40238@www.zefox.net> In-Reply-To: <1532196850.1344.87.camel@freebsd.org> References: <5b90c49f-4616-9ef7-28a1-6445137245ef@nomadlogic.org> <1532191655.1344.80.camel@freebsd.org> <4b7acbd2-0230-345c-4370-24a72d0b492a@nomadlogic.org> <1532193285.1344.83.camel@freebsd.org> <20180721174722.GA40167@www.zefox.net> <1532196850.1344.87.camel@freebsd.org>
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On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 12:14:10PM -0600, Ian Lepore wrote: > > I can't see any way that installkernel would lead to the complaint > about the ntpd user not existing; that check is tied to the > installworld target. > My mistake. I was sleepy and in a hurry. The error message was in installworld and my attempt to adduser ntpd concluded with an error: Locked : yes OK? (yes/no): yes pw: Bad id 'ntpd': invalid adduser: ERROR: There was an error adding user (ntpd). On reboot the old ntpd set the clock and I thought all was well. The failure is a little surprising, is ntpd a reserved name? The machine is re-running buildworld/installworld from a clean start, so presumably it'll halt over the same error again. When that happens, what's the simplest way to recover? Mergemaster is a big hammer, something less comprehensive might suffice, even manual editing of files. There's minimal customization on the machine, basically /etc/fstab, /etc/rc.conf and /etc/passwd. Nothing else of real value, so if I kill it in the attempt it won't be a disaster. Thanks for waking me to my blunder... bob prohaska
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