Re: Upgrading from 5.2.1 to 5.3

From: Per Hedeland (per_at_hedeland.org)
Date: 02/20/05


Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 18:43:14 +0000 (UTC)

In article <MPG.1c829da72eb1782b9896c4@news.giganews.com> Dan
Swartzendruber <dswartz@druber.com> writes:
>
>Did it with only one glitch. Did the cvsup to fetch new source tree and
>'make buildworld' just before I went to bed. I have a 3ware 9000
>controller which (I think) wasn't supported before, so I had to manually
>install the twa.ko module. Now, it is supported. I had to tweak the
>kernel config file a bit, but after booting single user and doing 'make
>installworld', everything worked flawlessly, except I couldn't get in
>via SSH - for some reason, password authentication was disabled in the
>new version. I figured out how to turn it back on, but decided to just
>go with keyboard-interactive mode instead.

Right, see
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc/msg/cba33e7e946b334b
- I guess in the choice between PAM and password authentication, the
FreeBSD team (probably rightly) chose PAM.

--Per Hedeland
per@hedeland.org



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