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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!news.dfn.de!news.belwue.de!newsserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de!news.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de!news.wsi!usenet From: gabara@peanuts.Informatik.Uni-Tuebingen.DE (Andrej Gabara) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Problems with NetBSD 1.0 Date: 19 Nov 1994 14:53:25 GMT Organization: Universitaet Tuebingen (WSI) Lines: 25 Distribution: world Message-ID: <3al3h5$28n@wsiserv.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> Reply-To: gabara@peanuts.Informatik.Uni-Tuebingen.DE NNTP-Posting-Host: inca.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de I've installed NetBSD 1.0, then I changed root's passwd, created a new user, changed his passwd, and rebooted: I was unable to log in! It looked like NetBSD forgot root's passwd. So I went for a second trial. I installed NetBSD again, created a new user, changed root's passwd and rebooted. Ok, this time it worked. I installed the srcdist and compdist, recompiled the kernel, booted of the new kernel and logged in with my user account. Ok so far... I compiled other software, su'd to root a couple of times, and rebooted: I was unable to log in either as root or with my user account!!!! I almost beat up my machine! I don't understand this! I am sure I did not change the passwd in between (don't have alzheimers!) Oh, I did use the european secr10.* distribution. Could that be the cause of the problem? I.e. is it possible that it works sometime and sometimes not depending on the secr10 distribution? Damn! I have wasted this much time. Before I give NetBSD another try, I want to make *sure* the problem is solved! Thank's for any help! -Andrej PS: I did not user the mailing list because I haven't figured out how to parse all this humoungous amount of mail to read only what I want to read.