FreeBSD Port: KUser deletes root account

[Will Andrews]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 06:50:11PM +0100, Mike Crosland wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm using
> FreeBSD 5.2 RELEASE
> KDE 3.1.4 from the ports distribution
> 
> When using KUser, I found it deleted the first line of my /etc/passwd 
> file, thus eliminating 'root' user. From inquiring into the problem, it 
> appears that a similar problem existed under 5.1, the difference being 
> that previously it deleted the first 3 lines of the passwd file, not just 
> one.

Sorry, you got bit by a bug that was fixed before 5.2-RELEASE but
didn't make it in the release.

Please see:
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.2R/errata.html

Short of it: update your ports and upgrade kdeutils.

Sorry for the hassle.

regards,
-- 
wca
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