[1120] in NetBSD-Development
things NOT to do on a NetBSD machine
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Yoav Yerushalmi)
Wed Nov 15 19:04:48 1995
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 19:03:35 -0500
From: Yoav Yerushalmi <yoav@MIT.EDU>
To: netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU, sipb-staff@MIT.EDU
okay.. tracked the problem with limekiller. Erik apparently
added himself to the non-existent /etc/passwd.local file,
thereby creating it. he then thought he messed up by
erasing all other entries in there. He didn't.. it just
wasn't there previous. somebody added root to there, without
a password. In reactivate, if it finds a passwd.local, it will
attempt to make an /etc/master.passwd from it, which it did,
and which was useless (it had root with no real password, and
nygren).
Anyway.. INSTRUCTIONS:
to add yourself to a netbsd machine:
/usr/athena/etc/adduser [username]
or
hesinfo [username] passwd >>/etc/master.passwd
vipw
{fix your entry up so that it looks like a master.passwd
entry}
The former is certainly friendlier, but well, it's not as
well tested as it should be.
-- yoav
