> On Aug 21, 2019, at 2:55 PM, Alan Somers <[email protected]> wrote: > > Today I tried to use chsh to change my shell from bash to fish. The > command completed successfully, but new logins continued to use bash! > Investigating, I discovered that /etc/pwd.db and /etc/spwd.db seem to > contain 3-4 entries per user. One of those still refers to my old
Berkeley DB files can only have a single index, so users are stored three times, once by username, once by uid, and once by line number. So that isn’t corruption. > shell. Worse, if I try using chsh again, it fails with an "entry > inconsistent" error, and I have to restore the password files from > backup. Has anybody seen something like this before? This is just a > single system, with no NIS or LDAP. You shouldn’t need to restore the files. You should be able to just regenerate the *.db files from the master.passwd file: /usr/sbin/pwd_mkdb -p /etc/master.passwd Unless, of course your master.passwd file was damaged. But the *.db files are really just caches for faster access to user data. The real master file is master.passwd. The ch* tools typically just change master.passwd, and then call pwd_mkdb to rebuild the *.db files. Tom _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
