Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 17:44:31 -0400 From: "Jean-Paul Natola" <jnatola@familycareintl.org> To: <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org>, "Chuck Swiger" <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: Peter Boosten <peter@boosten.org> Subject: RE: password failure- after mergmaster Message-ID: <3A85D7EF44E1C744BF6434691F5659E9702CFE@www.fcimail.org> In-Reply-To: <20070709213038.GA66595@Grumpy.DynDNS.org>
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On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 01:29:44PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Jul 9, 2007, at 1:25 PM, Peter Boosten wrote: > > > >Having read this I must admit that it's a complete mystery to me why > >mergemaster would touch your password file at all... >=20 > Because sometimes new versions of the OS come with new built-in user =20 > accounts, which need to be added to the existing passwd or groups =20 > databases somehow? Yes, exactly. Have to *merge* the changes into /etc/master.passwd rather than brute force overwrite. Notice the difference from my first post in this thread, the file which was clobbered is /etc/master.passwd, not just /etc/passwd which is a dummy=20 I'M DONE now- now I cant even boot into safe or single user mode It keeps asking me to enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for = /bin/sh I hit enter and I see the same message again , and again , and again and again
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