newbie question - users deleted after playing with sysinstall

[Ruben de Groot]

On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 11:38:13AM +0300, Haim Ashkenazi typed:
> Hi
> 
> I've just finished install FreeBSD 4.10 for the first time. I'm an
> experienced linux user, but have no experience with FreeBSD. after a very
> basic installation (only the first step, to get ssh) I've put the computer
> at my ISP (of-course everything is blocked by a firewall) and continued
> from home. I then installed some packages from the "Distribution" menu,
> and "played" with the menus to see what I can configure. today, I couldn't
> login to the computer (ssh), and when I checked (I had someone there who
> logged in locally) I found out root has no password and the regular
> user I created was gone. my question is: could something I've done in
> sysinstall delete the user and root password? it's not likely that someone
> broke into the system because it's completely blocked (only open from my
> IP).

Yes, that very likely. For instance, if you install the "bin" 
distribution more than once, it'll overwrite all files in /etc, including
master.passwd each time you do that.

Ruben

> thanx
> -- 
> Haim
> 
> 
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