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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