From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Jul 19 15:33:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mail.fpsn.net (mail.fpsn.net [63.224.69.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D349E37B5CC for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 15:33:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from simon@optinet.com) Received: from station1 (adsl-151-202-97-90.bellatlantic.net [151.202.97.90]) by mail.fpsn.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA51400; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 16:26:29 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from simon@optinet.com) Message-Id: <200007192226.QAA51400@mail.fpsn.net> From: "Simon" To: "Chris Cook" , "freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG" Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 18:36:34 -0500 Reply-To: "Simon" X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.10.2010) For Windows 2000 (5.0.2195) In-Reply-To: <3975E544.637A5FB6@tcworks.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: HELP! Cannot read passwd file Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org What's happening in rc.local? did you alter any settings lately? can you login into the box at all? you can try booting in single user mode by specifying "boot -s" at the boot prompt, if i'm not mistaking. -Simon On Wed, 19 Jul 2000 17:28:36 +0000, Chris Cook wrote: >Hey there, > One of our boxes boots up but acts like it cannot read the passwd or >group file. It seems that maybe somehow the encryption type has changed >and it is not using DES anymore? How can I make sure it is using the >proper encryption? It is running 3.1-RELEASE and when it boots up I >cannot login and it gives errors saying "user unknown" and group unknown >when loading stuff in rc.local ... please help. TIA > >-- >Chris > >o----< ccook@tcworks.net >-----------------------------------------o >|Chris Cook - Network Admin | TCWORKS.NET - http://www.tcworks.net | >|The Computer Works ISP | FreeBSD - http://www.freebsd.org | >o------------------------------------------------------------------o > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message