[1122] in NetBSD-Development
Re: things NOT to do on a NetBSD machine
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (eichin@MIT.EDU)
Wed Nov 15 19:32:37 1995
From: eichin@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 19:30:41 -0500
To: yoav@MIT.EDU
Cc: netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU, sipb-staff@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <199511160003.TAA00808@limekiller.MIT.EDU> (message from Yoav
Yerushalmi on Wed, 15 Nov 1995 19:03:35 -0500)
> erasing all other entries in there. He didn't.. it just
> wasn't there previous. somebody added root to there, without
I added root there (if you see my diagnosis previously posted here)
because there was *no* root entry *anywhere*.
Not in /etc/passwd.
Not in /etc/passwd.local.
Not in /etc/master.passwd.
We had to break into the machine via AFS to add a root entry so that
(1) inetd would spawn things again (2) someone with NetBSD-athena
knowledge, as opposed to general unix knowledge, could fix the
problem.
And as jhawk mentioned, it seems that this was happenning before Eric
did anything anyway...
