From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Oct 14 14: 1:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from d1o93.telia.com (d1o93.telia.com [194.17.166.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED48437B503 for ; Sat, 14 Oct 2000 14:01:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vaticide (h5fls4o93flexi.telia.com [62.20.226.5]) by d1o93.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA14344; Sat, 14 Oct 2000 23:30:45 +0200 (CEST) From: "Johan Huldtgren" To: "John Indra" , Subject: RE: *SOS* Can't change password on FreeBSD 4.1.1-STABLE Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 23:01:15 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.3018.1300 In-Reply-To: <20001014084511.A5161@indocyber.com> Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I have a FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE system that had been running great for days. > After I upgrade it to FreeBSD 4.1.1-STABLE (2000-10-11), I can't change any > user's password! *sigh* > I have no problem like this before going to 4.1.1-STABLE as stated. > > # passwd root > Changing local password for root. > New password: > Retype new password: > passwd: cannot set password cipher: Undefined error: 0 > passwd: /etc/master.passwd: unchanged > > What's wrong here? The whole kernel and userland upgrade seems to go fine > without a problem. Anyone having the same symptoms? Just to fill in, I have exactly the same symptom on my machine 4.1.1-Stable built on October 6th. I'm gonna try the soloution posted by Neil now, and report back in case of success. - Johan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message