On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 12:26:57 +0200, Ruben de Groot wrote: > 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. yep, that's exactly what I did. well, I just wanted to be sure that nobody broke into my system.
thanx -- Haim _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
