From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 4 17:58:28 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCDC516A4CE for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2005 17:58:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EA9743D2F for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2005 17:58:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jsimola@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 69so763677wri for ; Fri, 04 Mar 2005 09:58:28 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=BIA1Jw0jZQJNwpxL49skf+yLGmEIFCAsp9C0er2EZUu8QFZF85YjktzP/BpoOeIdf8v2qWOaVPx090Tjprf4Xyz9xbI0JB7IEv87BnXXIt9Iw1DqEYkLGHPo7Db48iXogn1lpS5Tj5Ver4hqZcM0iVxKp1l8puKwuaPpTP2lzfs= Received: by 10.54.62.12 with SMTP id k12mr56934wra; Fri, 04 Mar 2005 09:58:22 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.39.34 with HTTP; Fri, 4 Mar 2005 09:58:20 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <8eea040805030409589eee577@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 09:58:20 -0800 From: Jon Simola To: Keith Woodworth In-Reply-To: <20050304091846.G68169@pop.citytel.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <20050304091846.G68169@pop.citytel.net> cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Passwd file oddity. X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: jon@abccomm.com List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 17:58:28 -0000 On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 09:29:30 -0800 (PST), Keith Woodworth wrote: > 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. man pwd_mkdb You need to rebuild the binary DB password files. No authentication is done against the plaintext versions, they are mainly sourced for the DB versions. Another less intensive option is to run 'vipw' and make a small change (add another o to "Charlie Root" for example) and vipw will recompile them for you. -- Jon Simola Systems Administrator ABC Communications