Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 19:38:38 -0500 (CDT) From: David Syphers <dsyphers@oddjob.uchicago.edu> To: Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: transferring data (after losing all non-root logins) Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10306231936570.17328-100000@oddjob.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <001901c339e1$3c2db880$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>
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On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Matthew Emmerton wrote: > Well, it really sounds like your password database got got hosed. Does > /etc/master.passwd have entries for all of your non-root users? > If so, then probably all you need to do is regenerate your password > database. The easiest way to do this is run "vipw", make some kind of > change (and undo the change -- this is just so it thinks the file has been > changed) and exit. Your password database will be regenerated. Thanks... better than a workaround, solving the problem is always nice :) All the files, including master.passwd, were fine, which is what puzzled me, but regenerating the password database worked. -David
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