On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 11:14:45AM -0600, Ian Lepore wrote: > > There's a "pre-world" stage of mergemaster (-Fp option I think) which > isn't needed often, but one of the times it is needed is apparently > when new user ids are added. ?(So I've been told, I've never much used > mergemaster myself). I think there are some words about it at the very > bottom of UPDATING. >
FWIW, installkernel stopped with the note about needing an ntpd user/group. Never having been successful with mergemaster (couldn't make heads nor tails of the "what to do" prompts) I just ran adduser, creating a locked ntpd user and group. Nothing else special done. The machine is up to r336567 on arm64. Installkernel ran, I didn't touch anthing in /etc manually and reboot looked normal. For now it seems ignorance is bliss.... If there's something special I should do (beyond locking) to secure the ntpd account please warn me. Thanks for reading, bob prohaska _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
