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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in1.uu.net!207.172.3.52!feed1.news.erols.com!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!news.eli.net!not-for-path-mail From: blitz@axxis.com (Q. Wade Billings) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: PANIC! FreeBSD box still hosed Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 16:09:36 GMT Organization: AXXIS Internet Services Lines: 56 Message-ID: <337c849e.1548035@news.axxis.com> References: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970515184110.29195A-100000@cirrus.axxis.com> Reply-To: blitz@axxis.com NNTP-Posting-Host: argus.axxis.com X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.1/32.230 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41053 As some extra info that might clear up what is happening I will offer this. I can not log in as ANY user into the box including root This is true for console and remote (rlogin, telnet, rsh, etc...) attempts. I was running the PERL 5.003 Configure shell script sudoed as root prior to this happening... I ^C out of it, and that is when this whole thing started. When I am in single user mode and try to change a password for my ID, I issue the passwd <blitz> command and it tells me that it can not access the /etc/pwd.db file. I have copied the pwd.db and spwd.db files to *.bak and run the /usr/sbin/pwd_mkdb command. It rebuilds the databases from the master.password file, but this has no effect. What else besides the password file could it be? Could my termination of the sudo sh Configure have screwed something up? That is all I know right now. I have recieved a couple of responses back which I am truly grateful for, and will try them, but I thought that this info might shed some light on other possibilities. Thanks, Q. Wade Billings AXXIS Internet Services Network Systems Administrator On Thu, 15 May 1997 18:46:52 -0600, "Q. Wade Billings" <blitz@axxis.com> wrote: >Okay, I admit it...I am new to FreeBSD and a 6 month newbie to UNIX (I got >sick of windoze), but now it is kicking my ass. > >I have posted a message to this newsgroup concerning a rebel FreeBSD box >that refuses all attempts to log into it. I have checked the password >file, and it is working as my dialup customers can still authenticate >through RADIUS, but I can not login. This would not be such a problem, but >I need to get on the machine to do work on it. > >To compound the issue, I can restart the machine into single user mode and >work on it, but it is my mail exchanger as well as my primary RADIUS >machine. > >Any suggestions, help, wisdom, or rude comments are appreciated. I have >already had a gentlemen from Walnut Creek email me, but his sggestions >proved insufficent (no fault of his). > >Thanks in advance for all the help.... > >Q. Wade Billings >AXXIS Internet Services >Network Systems Administrator (brain damaged) > > >