Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 09:23:12 -0800 From: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Bert-Jan <info@bert-jan.com> Subject: Re: Login accounts don't work after update to 7.1 Message-ID: <49678800.8010701@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <44aba0xz0o.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <20af5b6d6703bc7b2575a763e7c70822.squirrel@admin.bert-jan.com> <44k595qz3o.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <9d5014697dd38400633bdcdd89c9e875.squirrel@admin.bert-jan.com> <44aba0xz0o.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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Lowell Gilbert wrote: > "Bert-Jan" <info@bert-jan.com> writes: >> What is the proper way to handle this ? Can I run a command after the >> update finishes that regenerates the account databases from the >> master.passwd ? I checked the history and *I* never touched it during the >> update, so it was merged like it should. > > I'm not sure what the proper way is; there's certainly code in there to > update the databases automatically, so you *shouldn't* have to do > anything. To do the same thing manually, you can use pwd_mkdb(8). When > you edit the password database with vipw(8), this is handled for you. If freebsd-update installs a new master.passwd file, it will regenerate the databases from it. All I can guess in this case is that freebsd-update couldn't manage to merge updates into master.passwd automatically, and when it opened up the file in an editor for you to fix, you didn't merge things properly. -- Colin Percival Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
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