> It turns out all seven hosts in my cluster report > a null password for root in /usr/src/etc/master.passwd: > root::0:0::0:0:Charlie &:/root:/bin/sh > > Is that intentional?
No, but I suspect your build/update procedures are infact telling the system to do this. Someone else pointed out etcupdate, which iirc you are using, with the update of "thiers all" infact would overwrite /etc/master.passwd. I do not know that etcupdate has the smarts to know that if it overwrites /etc/master.passwd it needs to run a pwd_mkdb -p /etc/master.passwd. etcupdate infact does have the smarts to run a pwd_mkdb. Hum, it also has some special casing of PREWORLD_FILES, which is /etc/master.passwd and etc/group. Perhaps something in that process went wrong. -- Rod Grimes rgri...@freebsd.org
