Has anyone else had a problem with GENESiS losing it's configuration
info?

After installing AMarquee, and testing it successfully, I rebooted and
loaded up GENESiSPrefs to check what the installer had done.

Surprisingly the user information was not listed. I assume this was
because for some reason I was not logged in as root. Of course, it was
impossible to tell which user I was logged in as because I don't
bother with passwords.

I loaded GENESiS and my usual user info appeared as normal. I saved
the preferences, reloaded and it asks me for a root password. I've
never used passwords with any account, so I hit return, assuming it
should be left blank. "Eh-Oh" rang out my error sound.

I couldn't get back in, some mystery password is blocking me. Have a
look in AmiTCP:db/passwd and the file is completely blank.

Hmm, life's too short for this. I have a back up of the db directory
made before running the AMarquee installer so I copy that over the
bodged db.

Same thing as before. My user information is there but the prefs
program doesn't show it or allow me to edit it.

SnoopDOS reports fails for inetd.conf, even though the file is in the
path searched. I don't understand that at all. Since the file is
supposedly identical to the one from a fresh install I get that from
the CD, same thing.

SnoopDOS doesn't display a search for the passwd file (yes, this is
without "Only Show Fails" checked).

On a hunch I do a fresh install on a zip disk with a copy of my boot
partition on. I can config this fine.

Whilst this isn't a problem at the moment, if I ever want to install a
new interface or add another user, I'll need to reinstall the stack
and create a fresh config. That's not something I wish to make a habit
of.

Does anyone know what's going on? Does GENESiS store config data
somewhere else on the hard drive? There's nothing else in the AmiTCP
drawer that looks like a config file.

Does anyone know what the mystery password is? I assume this is some
sort of anti-cracking measure for when something other than
GENESiSPrefs modifies the config files, but how do I unblock
it?
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Tom Waddington, Tainted Waters Productions
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