Albert Shih wrote:
Le 07/01/2009 à 07:06:53+0100, Peter Boosten a écrit
Johann Hasselbach wrote:
I was doing a src upgrade from 7.0 to 7.1
After installkernel, i rebooted, and accidently ran "mergemaster"
instead of "mergemaster -p" before installworld. I ctrl-c'd once I
realized what I had done, but the damage was done.
It seems to have overwritten my password and group files.
I've stated this before: In my opinion this entire 'I want to overwrite
your passwd file' attitude from mergemaster is nonsense: at installation
time you're required to add an additional user, and mergemaster wants to
undo that again.
Well...i'm not developper but long time ago, when I update from FreeBSD x.y
to Freebsd x+1,(0-1) I loose many time to find something don't work because
the Freebsd x+1 need some new system account.
Well, my point is that mergemaster shouldn't have to delete ALL
accounts, just to add one. User and group accounts can be added to the
passwd/group file *without* deleting the others.
Peter
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