On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 01:29:44PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Jul 9, 2007, at 1:25 PM, Peter Boosten wrote: > > > >Having read this I must admit that it's a complete mystery to me why > >mergemaster would touch your password file at all... > > Because sometimes new versions of the OS come with new built-in user > accounts, which need to be added to the existing passwd or groups > databases somehow?
Yes, exactly. Have to *merge* the changes into /etc/master.passwd rather than brute force overwrite. Notice the difference from my first post in this thread, the file which was clobbered is /etc/master.passwd, not just /etc/passwd which is a dummy I'M DONE now- now I cant even boot into safe or single user mode It keeps asking me to enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh I hit enter and I see the same message again , and again , and again and again _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
