From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 9 21:44:32 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDC3716A421 for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2007 21:44:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jnatola@familycareintl.org) Received: from mail.familycareintl.org (mail.familycareintl.org [68.167.21.154]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87E9813C4D3 for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2007 21:44:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jnatola@familycareintl.org) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 17:44:31 -0400 Message-ID: <3A85D7EF44E1C744BF6434691F5659E9702CFE@www.fcimail.org> In-Reply-To: <20070709213038.GA66595@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: password failure- after mergmaster Thread-Index: AcfCcKOweamcSMilQ92ZmQLY05yd2AAAWyog From: "Jean-Paul Natola" To: , "Chuck Swiger" Cc: Peter Boosten Subject: RE: password failure- after mergmaster X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 21:44:32 -0000 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