[Bug 290084] FreeBSD-15.0-ALPHA5 has no [s]pwd.db

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=290084

            Bug ID: 290084
           Summary: FreeBSD-15.0-ALPHA5 has no [s]pwd.db
           Product: Base System
           Version: 15.0-STABLE
          Hardware: Any
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Some People
          Priority: ---
         Component: conf
          Assignee: bugs@FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: darius@dons.net.au

I downloaded FreeBSD-15.0-ALPHA5-amd64-ufs-20251004-1c0898edf28f-280541.raw and
created a VM with:
sudo vm create -t freebsd-zvol -i
FreeBSD-15.0-ALPHA5-amd64-ufs-20251004-1c0898edf28f-280541.raw freebsd15

On boot it fails due to a missing /boot/efi (see #262214) - after fixing that
it boots but then you see:

...
Updating /var/run/os-release install: unknown user root
done.
Updating motd:install: unknown user root
.
Creating and/or trimming log filesnewsyslog: error in config file; unknown
user:
/var/log/ppp.log        root:network    640  3     1000 *     JC
...


And indeed you can't login as root. Rebooting into single user mode and
running:
pwd_mkdb -p /etc/master.passwd

Fixes it.

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