Problem with freebsd-update corrupting /etc/passwd

[Paul Schmehl]

--On August 20, 2015 at 7:20:08 PM -0700 "Brian W." <brian at brianwhalen.net> 
wrote:

>
> Are the passwords being corrupted or are you seeing the source upgrade
> behavior where passwords are deleted?
>

The files were corrupted, not the passwords.  No accounts were deleted 
during the upgrade.

The behavior was that when running #getent passwd username, no information 
would be returned, indicating that the account did not exist.  Yet a visual 
examination of the file (or a simple #grep username /etc/passwd) showed 
that the account was still in the file.

> Brian
> On Aug 20, 2015 7:17 PM, "Paul Schmehl" <pschmehl_lists at tx.rr.com> wrote:
>
> --On August 20, 2015 at 7:37:45 PM -0500 Adam Vande More
> <amvandemore at gmail.com> wrote:
>
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>
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 7:03 PM, Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists at tx.rr.com>
> wrote:
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>
>
> Yes, I do.  For both servers.  Why?
>
>
>
> Are the backups corrupted?
>
>
> It appears that they are.  Strange.  Wonder why I didn't have problems
> before?
>
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Paul Schmehl, Retired
As if it wasn't already obvious, my opinions
are my own and not those of my employer.
*******************************************
"It is as useless to argue with those who have
renounced the use of reason as to administer
medication to the dead." Thomas Jefferson
"There are some ideas so wrong that only a very
intelligent person could believe in them." George Orwell