Problem logging in after upgrade to 4.8-Stable

[Doug Silver]

On Tuesday 15 April 2003 11:32 am, Kent Stewart wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 April 2003 11:26 am, Doug Silver wrote:
> > I upgraded two 4.7 machines yesterday to 4.8-stable and now normal
> > users can't login (both at the console and ssh).  Root logs in okay.
> > I created a new user and that works.  However, the first server I
> > upgraded to 4.8 hasn't had the same problems.  I changed my personal
> > password as root on one of the problem servers and then I was able to
> > login.  Did something change in the password algorithm to cause this
> > to happen or is it something else?
> >
> > Any suggestions??
>
> Can not say for sure but this usually happens when you don't pay
> attention during mergemaster. If you let it update master.passwd, you
> end up with a clean system and lose your users.
>
> Lemt

I agree.  Mergemaster did not remove the users, they are still in there.  I 
even ran "/usr/sbin/pwd_mkdb -p /etc/master.passwd" just to see if that would 
solve it, but no luck.  It seems very odd that root could login fine, but I 
couldn't, and then a new user could.

-doug