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 > > > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"