From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Dec 20 06:07:16 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6B79133716E for ; Thu, 20 Dec 2018 06:07:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mout.kundenserver.de (mout.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.134]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "mout.kundenserver.de", Issuer "TeleSec ServerPass DE-2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 37C3A8E8D5 for ; Thu, 20 Dec 2018 06:07:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from r56.edvax.de ([92.193.252.129]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (mreue012 [212.227.15.167]) with ESMTPA (Nemesis) id 1MqINP-1hCikn0PHn-00nSAx; Thu, 20 Dec 2018 07:07:02 +0100 Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2018 07:07:00 +0100 From: Polytropon To: Matthias Fechner Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: (mac_ntpd) chown: ntpd: illegal user Message-Id: <20181220070700.18c23633.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: References: Reply-To: Polytropon Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.1 (GTK+ 2.24.5; i386-portbld-freebsd8.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:RhzBsc5XeT24Sn7MZm1wLdYOzFkqpPwL+CrVOdMYIQzRld/kThw 9iXQmR5otdQlDuM7jHlmwIAaVRf8qLidh24jjnvRVTcwQaXD391rUF81dtqtSvrNcfhVbjv 8sVacaAcfEYHEPfvz3zmu/gNSisLwsmgLqEfBZf5n++baI/kBh3AsxG3+KRoYv/RdyHhCYQ OJ5qUez6z1BI9FJKsZtxw== X-Spam-Flag: NO X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V03:K0:bspE29TJS2g=:PsJ6FveEQI9slmeM6eNen6 7qApz/uGOkrKnuk6pNe5VZ0EZikVBrx33L5ui1QYhmSDhefnZB4q7iTlzYeUK+v2D++BuQYf6 B+DBU4i59e/59KYdlG+LzfxspV5E1n1COvhqJW7oLs49VVgI/f+003MwL1kO79Z0AZSaG6vFq Lg0F3G+EO+SZ86vQAXaTyac+C5swsOmb2kgscLnDnSuXvBJjENjTnMn9W/6ms07LGj1r9as2N 4GHAtZkdfsRMfkmx5TpimGkbdeWZOl7U03I5X2q0e7WCKAcnKNZ2wlVrpeEgks3HsWuOOTqNb 4g0K2KGSFqutRqzI+yyAQzs5kVoHW+Aw/uA+dxIhCXHLdKmJ1eIAxN2byEQk6tJ9uoI6Dnffk YcYL8v+RUkS/+b/RGWGFTsxk44OlrqhSzEFpzuwDibLjIXv/BQS8UVgTix9/Ee67jB8BzO9nT BqPzdkZU9MA7MGY9ptjY/6iUSVdWO+/R1hleJPlVhy8ynusuS3t2a4LcAQexXtmHf/QQvWbe6 6pNhZknjZXRlrNoN4gNd+RmSzUnine8y5dJ6/YXuEJtf1ciqU39HVReDl65j9DNOfp4WsfZHr z541T5jECweuTs9xOPxLXOLC53Qc6j7FHXZxdKmk4QYVRCmO5gSw2R2vZamzwdfSi42aowcy8 +VR35B2aqgsuTdeD0YeYOne1a3XUuFPRm8ggJBA7U75iMz2DvrjwKXrWZoIlpd88/hlEVNuxr 5HhhlGbrg1ke0Pg4pMVmUYmcImBoZH46JunQvoge/aGDHDqD/xuEafqvcV4= X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 37C3A8E8D5 X-Spamd-Bar: ------ Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-6.97 / 15.00]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-1.000,0]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.97)[-0.972,0]; REPLY(-4.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000,0] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2018 06:07:17 -0000 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, ...