Re: can't change password with passwd comand
Hi Nick, Thanks for your points: sorry about the formating, I am sending this in plain text , let me know if this is better. I have looked over the master.passwd file and compaired with another machines working master.passwd and everything seems ok. you wrote: You can add and delete users all you want, there's something wrong with the master.passwd file. When you call up vipw or passwd, it makes a copy of that file to /etc/ptmp, you edit that file, then it does a sanity check and if it passes the sanity check, it rolls that file back to master.passwd, and makes the rest of the files (not necessarily in that order). Yours doesn't pass the sanity check. The strange thing is, is that if I use vipw and make changes it accepts the changes, but it does not except changes when I use passwd. If somthing is wrong with master.passwd file, wouldn't vipw also not work? I will try your suggestion about copying a fresh master.passwd file to /etc and starting from scratch.. see if that works.. I hope so (-: Thanks for all your help! - Original Message - From: Nick Holland To: misc@openbsd.org Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 10:29 PM Subject: Re: can't change password with passwd comand Jumping Mouse wrote: Hi Clint and others, I tried: # rm spwd* pwd* passwd* ptmp # pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd pointless. then #passwd username but I am still getting: (for all users) pwd_mkdb: corrupted entrypwd_mkdb: at line #24pwd_mkdb: /etc/ptmp: Inappropriate file type or formatpasswd: /etc/master.passwd: unchanged right. If the file is corrupted, the file is corrupted, it isn't going to spend a lot of time trying to push a change in and maybe make it worse. It is curious that it does let you change root's PW, but that's nice, it does let you get back in and fix the rest. I have searched the faqs but have not been able to find a good solution to this issue. Does anyone have any thoughts? EXACTLY what it says. Something around line 24 is wrong. A FEW ideas: * Line break at col 80 that you are assuming is a wrap, but it isn't. * Trailing spaces. * Blank lines (including an extra newline at end-of-file) Those are some of the errors I've made. I've probably repressed the really funny ones. You are free to make your own. :) You can add and delete users all you want, there's something wrong with the master.passwd file. When you call up vipw or passwd, it makes a copy of that file to /etc/ptmp, you edit that file, then it does a sanity check and if it passes the sanity check, it rolls that file back to master.passwd, and makes the rest of the files (not necessarily in that order). Yours doesn't pass the sanity check. Before you run vipw/passwd/whatever there is no /etc/ptmp file unless someone killed an edit inappropriately. If that's the case, it doesn't let you edit the file in the first place. Your file is corrupted. You need to fix it. Don't edit the file and then expect us to spot the error unless it is really blatant, and at this point, don't bother trying to convey much info at all over that mailer you are using. :) Worst case, assuming you are the only one (or one of few) on the system, grab the /etc/master.passwd from the etcXX.tgz file of the appropriate version of OpenBSD you are running, stick it in /etc, run vipw, make a trivial change (or run mkwhateveritis), exit, change root's PW, and re-populate the file one user at a time. You already know unpleasant things happened to your passwd file. You have a regular user at line 24...that's been a while since a regular user popped up that early in the file. You probably have got lots of problems there. Fortunately, it is pretty easy to rebuild. Just save a copy of your current version, and after the dust settles, copy over the individual users you need (and watch for wraps!). And ONLY those users... Nick.
Re: can't change password with passwd comand
ok here is a user with full details: (this is in plain text, hope it's more readable) cat.cat:$2a$07$aYgatzjxAULHQmmZkjmvteGEaO8Ie8geMoUfhl7AAzKi.WeRhuoA6:10006:20::0:0:Pussy Cat:/smbhome/student_homedirs/cat.cat:/bin/ksh - Original Message - From: Clint Pachl To: Jumping Mouse Cc: misc@openbsd.org Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 8:56 PM Subject: Re: can't change password with passwd comand Jumping Mouse wrote: Hi Clint, Yes I am the one. as for changing the password this seems to happen to any user except for the root acount, I am able to use passwd to change the root account password. Here is line 24: (I removed the password and real usernmame) username::1000:0::0:0:username:/home/username:/bin/ksh I was going to say, don't remove the username or password because the problem could be embedded in either one of those fields. Anyway, check to make sure that there is no whitespace adjacent to any colons. I don't know if this matters but there is no ptmp file in the /etc directory (no was there before I followed your earlier instructions) Doesn't matter. Just wanted to make sure it wasn't causing any problems when running passwd, which uses that file name as it's temp file.
Re: can't change password with passwd comand
Kafriki wrote: ok here is a user with full details: (this is in plain text, hope it's more readable) cat.cat:$2a$07$aYgatzjxAULHQmmZkjmvteGEaO8Ie8geMoUfhl7AAzKi.WeRhuoA6:10006:20::0:0:Pussy Cat:/smbhome/student_homedirs/cat.cat:/bin/ksh Ok, so you're a cat lover. Anyway, that dot in the username may be causing some problems. passwd(5) says: The login name may be up to 31 characters long. For compatibility with legacy software, a login name should start with a letter and consist solely of letters, numbers, dashes and underscores. The login name must never begin with a hyphen (`-'); also, it is strongly suggested that nei- ther uppercase characters nor dots (`.') be part of the name, as this tends to confuse mailers. No field may contain a colon as this has been used historically to separate the fields in the user database. I successfully added the user cat.cat and changed the user's password with passwd(1) on my 4.1 system. I'm not sure what is going on in your system. Try using vipw to replace the password with an * then try running passwd again. Are you sure there isn't an empty line in master.passwd? I appended an empty line to my master.passwd and ran passwd and I received the same exact error as you did. BTW, how many lines are in your master.passwd file (wc -l /etc/master.passwd) and what is the line number with the error reported by passwd? Because vipw is working for you, try removing the invalid line, then run passwd for another account. This should test whether your passwd program is working properly. It is weird that vipw works, but passwd complains. - Original Message - From: Clint Pachl To: Jumping Mouse Cc: misc@openbsd.org Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 8:56 PM Subject: Re: can't change password with passwd comand Jumping Mouse wrote: Hi Clint, Yes I am the one. as for changing the password this seems to happen to any user except for the root acount, I am able to use passwd to change the root account password. Here is line 24: (I removed the password and real usernmame) username::1000:0::0:0:username:/home/username:/bin/ksh I was going to say, don't remove the username or password because the problem could be embedded in either one of those fields. Anyway, check to make sure that there is no whitespace adjacent to any colons. I don't know if this matters but there is no ptmp file in the /etc directory (no was there before I followed your earlier instructions) Doesn't matter. Just wanted to make sure it wasn't causing any problems when running passwd, which uses that file name as it's temp file.
Re: can't change password with passwd comand
On Nov 21, 2007 10:48 AM, Kafriki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok here is a user with full details: (this is in plain text, hope it's more readable) cat.cat:$2a$07$aYgatzjxAULHQmmZkjmvteGEaO8Ie8geMoUfhl7AAzKi.WeRhuoA6:10006:20::0:0:Pussy Cat:/smbhome/student_homedirs/cat.cat:/bin/ksh Don't paste a user but line 24's user -- Cris, member of G.U.F.I Italian FreeBSD User Group http://www.gufi.org/
Re: can't change password with passwd comand
Cristiano Deana wrote: On Nov 21, 2007 10:48 AM, Kafriki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok here is a user with full details: (this is in plain text, hope it's more readable) cat.cat:$2a$07$aYgatzjxAULHQmmZkjmvteGEaO8Ie8geMoUfhl7AAzKi.WeRhuoA6:10006:20::0:0:Pussy Cat:/smbhome/student_homedirs/cat.cat:/bin/ksh Don't paste a user but line 24's user and 23 and 25... Better yet, end the blooming guessing game, post the thing somewhere. Yes, that means all your PWs are trash, but if you are inheriting a machine, you need to change all the PWs anyway...and probably once again once you have properly secured it. Or manually edit down the file to the absolute minimum that demonstrates the problem. Or move the file to another OpenBSD machine (they are easy to build) and verify that the problem is IN that file, and not a systemic problem, which is not out of the question, considering the other apparent damage to it. Then do what we will do and chew through the file and figure out why it isn't working. Nick.
Re: can't change password with passwd comand
Ok, Ok I get the point. I agree that posting line 24 will not help, any user except root gives the same issues. And as a last and final attempt I will check the end of the file for any spaces as Clint suggested. finally: What if I try a master.passwd file form a working machine of same Build. If that file does work then we can conclude it is systemic. I am off for thanksgiving over here in the US.. so it may be a while before I respond with my results. Thanks everyone, so far. - Original Message - From: Nick Holland To: misc Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2007 7:18 AM Subject: Re: can't change password with passwd comand Cristiano Deana wrote: On Nov 21, 2007 10:48 AM, Kafriki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok here is a user with full details: (this is in plain text, hope it's more readable) cat.cat:$2a$07$aYgatzjxAULHQmmZkjmvteGEaO8Ie8geMoUfhl7AAzKi.WeRhuoA6:10006:20 ::0:0:Pussy Cat:/smbhome/student_homedirs/cat.cat:/bin/ksh Don't paste a user but line 24's user and 23 and 25... Better yet, end the blooming guessing game, post the thing somewhere. Yes, that means all your PWs are trash, but if you are inheriting a machine, you need to change all the PWs anyway...and probably once again once you have properly secured it. Or manually edit down the file to the absolute minimum that demonstrates the problem. Or move the file to another OpenBSD machine (they are easy to build) and verify that the problem is IN that file, and not a systemic problem, which is not out of the question, considering the other apparent damage to it. Then do what we will do and chew through the file and figure out why it isn't working. Nick.
Re: can't change password with passwd comand
Jumping Mouse wrote: Ok, Ok I get the point. I agree that posting line 24 will not help, any user except root gives the same issues. And as a last and final attempt I will check the end of the file for any spaces as Clint suggested. You mean you haven't check for empty lines and trailing and adjacent spaces yet? finally: What if I try a master.passwd file form a working machine of same Build. If that file does work then we can conclude it is systemic. What are you saying? If you try a master.passwd file from a working machine and it does work, then we can conclude your original master.passwd file was crap. At this point, I would say end the troubleshooting on the crappy master.passwd file and do what Holland said. Extract a master.passwd file from a pristine etcXX.tgz and go from there. DO NOT use a master.passwd from another working machine. We don't need to introduce other variables.
Re: can't change password with passwd comand
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] so spake Jumping Mouse (kafriki): When I try to change a user password I get an error. I do this: # passwd username enter a new password and get: pwd_mkdb: corrupted entrypwd_mkdb: at line #24pwd_mkdb: /etc/ptmp: Innapropriate file type or formatpasswd: etc/master.passwd unchanged how can I fix this? This indicates that your /etc/master.passwd file has some errors unrelated to your attempt to change the password. You should run the vipw command as root to fix the problem on line 24. It sounds like that line is missing at least one field. - todd
Re: can't change password with passwd comand
Hi Clint and others, I tried: # rm spwd* pwd* passwd* ptmp # pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd then #passwd username but I am still getting: (for all users) pwd_mkdb: corrupted entrypwd_mkdb: at line #24pwd_mkdb: /etc/ptmp: Inappropriate file type or formatpasswd: /etc/master.passwd: unchanged I have searched the faqs but have not been able to find a good solution to this issue. Does anyone have any thoughts? Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 19:33:06 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: can't change password with passwd comand Jumping Mouse wrote: When I try to change a user password I get an error. I do this: # passwd username enter a new password and get: pwd_mkdb: corrupted entrypwd_mkdb: at line #24pwd_mkdb: /etc/ptmp: Innapropriate file type or formatpasswd: etc/master.passwd unchanged how can I fix this?# cd /etc # cp -p spwd.db pwd.db passwd /root/ # backup # rm spwd* pwd* passwd* ptmp # pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd # passwd username # try again http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/
Re: can't change password with passwd comand
Jumping Mouse wrote: Hi Clint and others, I tried: # rm spwd* pwd* passwd* ptmp # pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd then #passwd username but I am still getting: (for all users) pwd_mkdb: corrupted entrypwd_mkdb: at line #24pwd_mkdb: /etc/ptmp: Inappropriate file type or formatpasswd: /etc/master.passwd: unchanged I have searched the faqs but have not been able to find a good solution to this issue. Does anyone have any thoughts? Does line #24 have a subtle error? Check the format against passwd(5). BTW, are you the guy that inherited an OpenBSD system without a root account?
Re: can't change password with passwd comand
Hi Clint, Yes I am the one. as for changing the password this seems to happen to any user except for the root acount, I am able to use passwd to change the root account password. Here is line 24: (I removed the password and real usernmame) username::1000:0::0:0:username:/home/username:/bin/ksh I don't know if this matters but there is no ptmp file in the /etc directory (no was there before I followed your earlier instructions) Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:59:52 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: can't change password with passwd comand Jumping Mouse wrote: Hi Clint and others, I tried: # rm spwd* pwd* passwd* ptmp # pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd then #passwd username but I am still getting: (for all users) pwd_mkdb: corrupted entrypwd_mkdb: at line #24pwd_mkdb: /etc/ptmp: Inappropriate file type or formatpasswd: /etc/master.passwd: unchanged I have searched the faqs but have not been able to find a good solution to this issue. Does anyone have any thoughts?Does line #24 have a subtle error? Check the format against passwd(5). BTW, are you the guy that inherited an OpenBSD system without a root account? http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/
Re: can't change password with passwd comand
One more follow up: I added a new user. then tried to change the users password with the passwd command and I get the same results: pwd_mkdb: corrupted entrypwd_mkdb: at line #25pwd_mkdb: /etc/ptmp: Inappropriate file type or formatpasswd: /etc/master.passwd: unchanged From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: can't change password with passwd comand Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 01:13:56 +0100 Hi Clint, Yes I am the one. as for changing the password this seems to happen to any user except for the root acount, I am able to use passwd to change the root account password. Here is line 24: (I removed the password and real usernmame) username::1000:0::0:0:username:/home/username:/bin/ksh I don't know if this matters but there is no ptmp file in the /etc directory (no was there before I followed your earlier instructions) Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:59:52 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: can't change password with passwd comand Jumping Mouse wrote: Hi Clint and others, I tried: # rm spwd* pwd* passwd* ptmp # pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd then #passwd username but I am still getting: (for all users) pwd_mkdb: corrupted entrypwd_mkdb: at line #24pwd_mkdb: /etc/ptmp: Inappropriate file type or formatpasswd: /etc/master.passwd: unchanged I have searched the faqs but have not been able to find a good solution to this issue. Does anyone have any thoughts?Does line #24 have a subtle error? Check the format against passwd(5). BTW, are you the guy that inherited an OpenBSD system without a root account? http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/
Re: can't change password with passwd comand
Jumping Mouse wrote: One more follow up: I added a new user. then tried to change the users password with the passwd command and I get the same results: pwd_mkdb: corrupted entrypwd_mkdb: at line #25pwd_mkdb: /etc/ptmp: Inappropriate file type or formatpasswd: /etc/master.passwd: unchanged That's interesting. The line with the error moved from #24 to #25. Make sure there are no empty lines anywhere in the file (check the last line) and no trailing spaces after any entry. Also, the formatting of your replies are really messed up and are difficult to read. Are you sending in plain text?
Re: can't change password with passwd comand
Jumping Mouse wrote: Hi Clint, Yes I am the one. as for changing the password this seems to happen to any user except for the root acount, I am able to use passwd to change the root account password. Here is line 24: (I removed the password and real usernmame) username::1000:0::0:0:username:/home/username:/bin/ksh I was going to say, don't remove the username or password because the problem could be embedded in either one of those fields. Anyway, check to make sure that there is no whitespace adjacent to any colons. I don't know if this matters but there is no ptmp file in the /etc directory (no was there before I followed your earlier instructions) Doesn't matter. Just wanted to make sure it wasn't causing any problems when running passwd, which uses that file name as it's temp file.
Re: can't change password with passwd comand
Jumping Mouse wrote: Hi Clint and others, I tried: # rm spwd* pwd* passwd* ptmp # pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd pointless. then #passwd username but I am still getting: (for all users) pwd_mkdb: corrupted entrypwd_mkdb: at line #24pwd_mkdb: /etc/ptmp: Inappropriate file type or formatpasswd: /etc/master.passwd: unchanged right. If the file is corrupted, the file is corrupted, it isn't going to spend a lot of time trying to push a change in and maybe make it worse. It is curious that it does let you change root's PW, but that's nice, it does let you get back in and fix the rest. I have searched the faqs but have not been able to find a good solution to this issue. Does anyone have any thoughts? EXACTLY what it says. Something around line 24 is wrong. A FEW ideas: * Line break at col 80 that you are assuming is a wrap, but it isn't. * Trailing spaces. * Blank lines (including an extra newline at end-of-file) Those are some of the errors I've made. I've probably repressed the really funny ones. You are free to make your own. :) You can add and delete users all you want, there's something wrong with the master.passwd file. When you call up vipw or passwd, it makes a copy of that file to /etc/ptmp, you edit that file, then it does a sanity check and if it passes the sanity check, it rolls that file back to master.passwd, and makes the rest of the files (not necessarily in that order). Yours doesn't pass the sanity check. Before you run vipw/passwd/whatever there is no /etc/ptmp file unless someone killed an edit inappropriately. If that's the case, it doesn't let you edit the file in the first place. Your file is corrupted. You need to fix it. Don't edit the file and then expect us to spot the error unless it is really blatant, and at this point, don't bother trying to convey much info at all over that mailer you are using. :) Worst case, assuming you are the only one (or one of few) on the system, grab the /etc/master.passwd from the etcXX.tgz file of the appropriate version of OpenBSD you are running, stick it in /etc, run vipw, make a trivial change (or run mkwhateveritis), exit, change root's PW, and re-populate the file one user at a time. You already know unpleasant things happened to your passwd file. You have a regular user at line 24...that's been a while since a regular user popped up that early in the file. You probably have got lots of problems there. Fortunately, it is pretty easy to rebuild. Just save a copy of your current version, and after the dust settles, copy over the individual users you need (and watch for wraps!). And ONLY those users... Nick.
can't change password with passwd comand
When I try to change a user password I get an error. I do this: # passwd username enter a new password and get: pwd_mkdb: corrupted entrypwd_mkdb: at line #24pwd_mkdb: /etc/ptmp: Innapropriate file type or formatpasswd: etc/master.passwd unchanged how can I fix this? http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/
Re: can't change password with passwd comand
Jumping Mouse wrote: When I try to change a user password I get an error. I do this: # passwd username enter a new password and get: pwd_mkdb: corrupted entrypwd_mkdb: at line #24pwd_mkdb: /etc/ptmp: Innapropriate file type or formatpasswd: etc/master.passwd unchanged how can I fix this? # cd /etc # cp -p spwd.db pwd.db passwd /root/ # backup # rm spwd* pwd* passwd* ptmp # pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd # passwd username # try again
