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Date:      Thu, 20 Dec 2018 07:07:00 +0100
From:      Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To:        Matthias Fechner <idefix@fechner.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: (mac_ntpd) chown: ntpd: illegal user
Message-ID:  <20181220070700.18c23633.freebsd@edvax.de>
In-Reply-To: <a4501936-8cd5-95ab-fa89-6e4f658ee84f@fechner.net>
References:  <DM5PR20MB21023BCDED5596B7B50D131680BE0@DM5PR20MB2102.namprd20.prod.outlook.com> <a4501936-8cd5-95ab-fa89-6e4f658ee84f@fechner.net>

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On Thu, 20 Dec 2018 00:53:07 +0100, Matthias Fechner wrote:
> Am 19.12.2018 um 19:45 schrieb Carmel NY:
> > After updating to FreeBSD 12, I am getting this error when booting up. Since
> > I never personally touched 'ntpd', the update caused this problem.
> >
> > Security policy loaded: MAC/ntpd
> > (mac_ntpd) chown: ntpd: illegal user
> > name Starting ntpd.
> 
> I had a similar problem.
> 
> Typed vipw added an empty line and deleted it again, save and close.
> The required files had been generated again and problem was solved for me.

It seems that the step of using pwd_mkdb to update the
user and password database has been missing somewhere;
see "man pwd_mkdb" for details - you can manually invoke
the appropriate command. :-)


-- 
Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...



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