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Date:      Wed, 21 Jan 2004 13:00:34 -0500
From:      Will Andrews <will@csociety.org>
To:        Mike Crosland <miketemp@xs4all.nl>
Cc:        kde@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Port: KUser deletes root account
Message-ID:  <20040121180034.GX51708@sirius.firepipe.net>
In-Reply-To: <opr14ztxd8mp4kdh@mail.xs4all.nl>
References:  <opr14ztxd8mp4kdh@mail.xs4all.nl>

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On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 06:50:11PM +0100, Mike Crosland wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm using
> FreeBSD 5.2 RELEASE
> KDE 3.1.4 from the ports distribution
>=20
> When using KUser, I found it deleted the first line of my /etc/passwd=20
> file, thus eliminating 'root' user. From inquiring into the problem, it=
=20
> appears that a similar problem existed under 5.1, the difference being=20
> that previously it deleted the first 3 lines of the passwd file, not just=
=20
> one.

Sorry, you got bit by a bug that was fixed before 5.2-RELEASE but
didn't make it in the release.

Please see:
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.2R/errata.html

Short of it: update your ports and upgrade kdeutils.

Sorry for the hassle.

regards,
--=20
wca

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