RE: a very annoying pb with accounts

From: Steve Hodgson (steve_at_acidy.com)
Date: 09/30/04

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    To: 'Grégory Nou' <gregorynou@altern.org>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 15:25:20 +0100

    owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org wrote:
    > Hi everybody,
    >
    > Here is my (weird) problem ...
    > I opened /etc/spwd.db with ee and exited (which was actually
    > a very bad
    > idea, even if I did not modified anything). At this time, everything
    > was still ok.
    > Then, a few minutes later, I tried to su ... Impossible : I get some
    > weird error message telling me "su: who are you ?"
    > Then I tried to log directly from the login shell on tty0 with my
    > account... unknown user. I add a look at /etc/passwd : everything was
    > correct.
    > And when I tried to recreate my account : "user already
    > exists" Then I reboot (the second very bad idea in the same
    > day), and user "gdm"
    > didn't exist anymore.
    > Exactly as if I forgot to make mergemaster after upgrading, but with
    > only one difference : I actually didn't made a upgrade.
    > So now the situation is : I can only access with root
    > account. Does someone know when I did a mistake ? and does
    > someone knows how to
    > fix it ? Should I delete account in /etc/passwd and create
    > them again ?
    > I had this idea, but I didn't want to make another stupid
    > thing today :) Thanks a lot

    I can only guess that you need to use pwd_mkdb. Probably the easiest way to
    do this is to use /sbin/vipw, just doing ":wq" to save the changes (though
    there will be none), which will run pwd_mkdb for you.

    Steve

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